The Marquis De Sade Reader: - Softcover

Sade spent more than half his life in prison, which caused him to take his revenge on society through evocations of sexual cruelty. Excluded from normal life, he developed an extreme vision of the world through stories, dialogues and historical novels. Included here are extracts from his major fiction: some of the devastating fantasies in Les Cint Vingt Journees de Sodome as well as episodes from Justine and from the compulsively vicious Juliette.

Yet, in addition to his so-called 'obscene' writing, Sade wrote with equal fervour about idealized people and democratic societies. He was indeed a passionate philosopher, a man typical in his own way of his times but eager to pass on to later generations his incandescent ideas about human behaviour.