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Original Title:	Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu
ISBN:	0802132189 (ISBN13: 9780802132185)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eugenie, Dolmance
Setting:	France

Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings Paperback | Pages: 784 pages

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Title	:	Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
Author	:	Marquis de Sade
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 784 pages
Published	:	January 11th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1791)
Categories	:	Fiction. Philosophy. Classics. Adult Fiction. Erotica. Cultural. France. Literature

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No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century—from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and Kafka—is indisputable. This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine. This literary portrait of Sade is completed by one of his earliest philosophical efforts, Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man, a selection of his letters, a fifty-page chronology of his life, two important essays on Sade, and a bibliography of his work.

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Dad obtained this book in paperback right after Grove Press put it out in '65. For a while it sat in the bookshelf in the living room, then it disappeared into the parental bedroom where, of course, I quickly rediscovered it. Being about thirteen at the time, I found Philosophy in the Bedroom to be stimulating in its earlier parts, but its conclusion and its companion book, Justine, were off-putting.Later, after I'd entered high school, I actually sat down and read the introduction to the volume

If youve also never read Sade before, then this is the omnibus for you. Yes, its very dense, but it contains all the major works and enough criticism to understand his philosophy within its historical context. The front matter includes two essays, one critical and one biographical. The critical essay is especially helpful because it explains that Sade was writing in opposition to Rousseau whose idea of Natural Man Sade had to negate. A chronology follows these essays then seven letters, notes on

*yawn* I don't own this book anymore. It found a good home on a church pew.

This is weird, but at times I wondered if de sade was an early feminist. His athiestic tirades were dead on, but his rants on women's inferiority were so ridiculous that I wondered if he were "pulling a Jonathan Swift." Folks who have read 120 days of Sadom say not, but I still wonder. I did enjoy it for the philosophy, assinine and not so much, and the kinkiness was not that extreme, except the bleeding one. I loved how he killed her off at the end and by the end he was calling her feeble

What a load of dribbling moronic crap! No really, why would a man in prison for more than 40 years equate sex with death and pain and a pathological fear, loathing and desire to subjugate women? Please! The fact that people worship him as a genius is pathetic. I read this book originally as research for something I thought I wanted to write at the time to "rescue" the Justine character. I changed my mind after I read this ludicrous, infantile treatise. No redeeming qualities, but you have to

I thought I'd read stuff in fanfic, but this blew everything out of the water.

Erudit porn at it's best. A god of human sexual perversion.