"Justine", "Philosophy in the Bedroom" and Other Writings

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De Sade presents man's unfettered urges as being driven by the pleasure of the moment, regardless of the cost to others.

In Philosophy in the Bedroom, Dolmance is the lone stand-in for Sade, but in Justine, the utterly pointless shifts in setting and character (Justine escapes, is promptly immured again) serve only to introduce dozens of pseudonymous Sades. Personally, I started out fascinated but found there to be little value until I started reading secondary essays, biographies of the man and his other works. Not only in Europe but across Asia to Japan from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth centuries did sexual and social libertinage flourish, a generalized cultural drive towards breaking out of the bondage of traditional authority of all kinds, driven by the global rise of urban culture and the merchant class.I feel that if you took him as literally as those in his own time did, you'd be missing much of the point.

He causes no end of bother to his powerful, his redoubtable inlaws, the President and the Presidente de Montreuil: does that justify two years in a fortress? I have a couple other editions of De Sade's works and this one appears to be the best by far, aside from the fact it's not very friendly from a portable stand-point, but the writing/translations seem better than some others I've come across. His works include dialogues and political tracts; in his lifetime, he published some works under his own name and denied authorship of apparently anonymous other works. Any story or plot was abandoned and the book became merely a laundry list of sexual perversities and atrocities. It lends an elegant feel, which is mostly due to its traditional styling and high gloss and mirror finish.Virtue is not rewarded in these novels, but rather severely punished by consistent rape and other forms of abuse. Its clean lines and smooth finish exude sophistication, while the neutral color options allow it to complement a variety of interior styles. He describes their crimes with such pornographic and bestial detail, makes his criminals so much wiser than their victims, that it just seems clear to me that they are the heroes. So, in one sense, de Sade is encouraging women to break the ties that have kept them in bondage throughout history and become what nature has intended for them all along (he does make it clear that the pains inflicted upon those who don't accept the ways of the libertine can be even more enjoyable. Nevertheless the history of the term underlines its concern not simply with sexual deviance or excess, but with the ideal of freedom and self-determination, even against the pressure of public hostility or condemnation.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century—from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and Kafka—is indisputable. He would go even further: he would with pleasure see the whole of mankind done away with, to make room for some new invention of Nature. Although I've read a handful of literature spawning from the eighteenth century, I've in fact read no pornographic tales of lecherous old men, debauchery, and pious charlatans masquerading as important figures with a hankering for despotism, rape, and . What generations of readers and scholars have found is that regardless of what one makes of Sade’s predilections, he is a brilliant stylist and an often-imitated-but-never-replicated philosophical provocateur.

It's interesting to note that de Sade's "moral" fiction presents the dangers that libertines can present to society--he warns his readers that he must relate such horrors to let them know what to expect; while, of course, satifying his own desire to exercise the freedom given to him by Nature. At Mister-Seekers Books, we strive to transform every transaction into a delightful journey of discovery. These particular novels did not show husbands that loved their wives rather the few married men written about were into debauchery and incest. After reading Justine, the unavoidable conclusion is that it is much worse than cynicism; it is downright Sadism. Interestingly it does have a fairly unhappy ending for his main character who ends up losing what he loves most.And since in this piece we shall not have anything further to say about the Gospel, nothing need prevent us from disclosing its secret.