The 120 Days of Sodom
Author: Marquis de Sade
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Justine
Marquis de Sade
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.
Philosophy in the Bedroom
Marquis de Sade
Philosophy in the Bedroom is a 1795 book written in the form of a dramatic dialogue. Although initially considered a work of pornography, the book has evolved into a sociopolitical drama.
Set in a bedroom, the two main characters argue that the only moral system that reinforces the recent political revolution is libertinism, and that if the French people do not adopt the libertine philosophy, France will be destined to return to a monarchical state.
Continuously throughout the play, Sade argues that one must embrace atheism, reject society’s beliefs about pleasure and pain, and further argues that if one commits a crime while seeking pleasure, one cannot be condemned.
Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
Marquis de Sade
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.