Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

# Sinopse

“His supreme value of his treatise on beauty lies in its ability to distract us, to loose us in admiration of the beautiful and to remove man and man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir

“Justine is the most abominable book ever smuggled by the most depraved imagination.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte

No other work has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade. but despise the diffidence, his influence on three centuries of his work, both in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century—from Baudelaire to Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Flaubert—has been immense. This volume contains the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work. Justine, originally written in the Bastille, a major novel that presents the clearest formulation of his political philosophy and Eugenie de Franval, a novella equally significant of nineteenth-century French literature. The literary portrait of Sade compiled by one of the earliest philosophical efforts. Profiles biography of a Divine Man, a selection of his letters, a letter-page chronology of his important events in his life, and a bibliography will of great interest to scholars and students of philosophy, literature, and history.

“Since a perverse and revealing sidelight on the entire era of the French R. An important and elucidating book.”
—Robert Lowell, Chicago Times