Philosophy in the Bedroom

Author: Marquis de Sade

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Justine

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Justine takes place just before the French Revolution in France and tells the story of a young girl named Thérèse. Her story is told to Madame de Lorsagne as she defends herself against her crimes, on her way to punishment and death. She explains the series of misfortunes that have led her to her present situation.

Justine was one of the first works of the Marquis de Sade, written in two weeks in 1787 while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. It is a 187-page novel with little of the obscenity that characterized his later writing, as it is written in the classical style that was fashionable at the time, with a very detailed and metaphorical description.

Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

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Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man is a dialogue written by the Marquis de Sade while imprisoned in the Château de Vincennes in 1782.

It is one of the earliest written works by Sade whose date is known with certainty, and was first published in 1926 along with an edition of «Stories, Tales and Fables» (originally written in 1788). It was subsequently published in English by Pascal Covici in 1927 in a limited, hand-numbered edition of 650 copies.

The work expresses the author’s atheism by having a dying man (a libertine) tell a priest what he considers the errors of a pious life.

The 120 Days of Sodom

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It tells the story of four wealthy libertines who set out to experience maximum sexual satisfaction in orgies. To this end, they lock themselves up for four months in an inaccessible castle in the heart of the Black Forest, with a harem of 36 victims, mostly teenage boys and girls, and hire four brothel keepers to tell their lives and adventures.

The women’s stories serve as inspiration for the sexual abuse and torture of the victims, which gradually increases in intensity and ends with their sacrifice.