false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170538685m/60200.jpg 60200 26 <div>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's crowning achievement and the cornerstone of his thought. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1935.<br>In addition to The 120 Days, this volume includes Sade's "Reflections on the Novel," his play Oxtiem, and his novella Ernestine. The selections are introduced by Simone de Beauvoir's landmark essay "Must We Burn Sade?" and Pierre Klossowski's provocative "Nature as Destructive Principle." "Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change."-From Sade's Last Will and Testament</div> 58568 1785 The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings total:646|5:162|4:163|3:194|2:88|1:39| 646 2259 1113 105 2 26 false false Sat Oct 04 19:55:12 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 28 10:34:11 -0800 2008 i.e., he has reduced transgressive sexuality to a silly itemization of attributes, qualities, and traits....more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 18:47:13 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 19:00:10 -0700 2009 Quills I was engulfed in the character Geoffry Rush played, the character being the Marquis De Sade. After some quick IMDB research I learned the Marquis De Sade was in fact real and wrote many stories. I knew I had to read them. I ran to the library and picked up 120 Days of Sodom...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 09 13:13:32 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 13:13:49 -0700 2009
Esta obra, escrita enquanto Sade se encontrava recluso na Prisão da Bastilha, foi terminada ...more...]]> 3 1 false true Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Apr 08 10:29:54 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 10:44:56 -0700 2009 This is not the Sade to read if you want to get turned on. (Unless you get turned on by poop, in which case, stop reading this and get to it.)
The frame of the book is a mor...more...]]> 1 0 true true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 24 09:55:12 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 11:28:40 -0800 2009 "I advise the overmodest to lay my book aside at once if he would not be scandalized, for 'til already clear there's not much of the chaste in our plan, and we dare hold ourselves answerable in advance that there'll be still less in the execution... And now, friend-reader, you must prepare your...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 13:01:38 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 09:47:02 -0700 2009 1 1 false false Tue Nov 20 04:05:15 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 04:24:31 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Mar 18 09:41:57 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 09:47:59 -0700 2009
It is highly disturbing and extremely immoral. I...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 09:36:55 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 09:36:55 -0700 2009
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I bought this book a while ago, and a couple weeks ago I decided to pick it up and read it... I did, but with much skippage for sanity's sake.

Now, I will admit that I have a bit of a morbid fascination with someone who has a term for a deviant trait named after them. I ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 16 20:55:20 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 21:32:16 -0700 2008
The plot overview is simple. For five months, from November till March, four wealthy perverts and a host of other char...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 17 10:24:42 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 00:15:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Feb 15 12:57:52 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 13:34:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sat Mar 08 10:34:08 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 10:39:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 30 10:11:45 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 10:13:14 -0800 2009
Good read for psych. majors. Interesting, confusing rea...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 12 19:09:17 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 08 12:36:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Dec 11 07:13:46 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 07:14:48 -0800 2008 not because they were graphic, but, i mean, how many pages of old men eating the shit of kidnapped children can you read?
can you read a couple hundred? and it's the same shit eating fiasco type of deal over and over. so, that got bor...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 19:13:14 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 19:20:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Sun Jul 19 20:35:06 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 20:42:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 08 11:59:08 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 03 07:00:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=60200