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It's no secret he was interested in theater and I think the setup of this clearly shows that, however, it would be a little while before he really refined his work to become the novelist. However, I have to agree with other people who speculate that Sade has merely tried to reclaim "The 120 Days of Sodom" in his other writings.
he 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Licentiousness (Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage ) is a novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, written in 1785. It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate sexual gratification in orgies.
reconstitute The 120 Days? * This is the name Restif de la Bretonne invented to identify The 120 Days of Sodom, whose real title he did not know, but of whose composition he had learned. Again and again we are led back to a fundamental contradiction in Sade; and there, one senses, lies the entire problem of situating him.
10 de ene. de 1994 · The novel, The 120 Days of Sodom, is gross, disgusting, infuriating, sickening and shocking. The only redeeming thing about it is Sade's description of the character of Mme Duclos; how she became a Madame, and such a thieving, duplicitous character, and why she, evidently, had no conscience, are interesting things to ponder.
The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud-of the psychology of sex, it is considered Sade ...
10 de ene. de 1994 · 120 Days of Sodom was the first book i decided to read from Marquis de Sade and i did it, because i was intrigued from the whole Sinister and Evil Reputation that accompanies his writings! I admit that i was really shocked but also thought- provoked.
I wanted to contribute a review to correct some of the impressions readers may have gotten from other customers' reviews of 120 Days of Sodom. First of all, I do regard 120 Days as a masterpiece -- Sade's only masterpiece, and a dazzling contribution to world literature. I will spend the rest of this review hopefully providing 120 Day's future ...
