Brief Lives: Marquis de Sade
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Brief Lives: Marquis de Sade

  1. 120 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Brief Lives: Marquis de Sade

About this book

As explicit in his prose as he was in his private life, the Marquis de Sade remains one of the most controversial writers of all time. This new biography, by the acclaimed translator and author David Carter, promises to shock as much as it informs. Arrested many times for sexual misdemeanors, the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, where he was writing 120 Days of Sodom and The Misfortunes of Virtue at the time that it was stormed in 1789. After the French Revolution he was again imprisoned and sent to an asylum, where he wrote diaries and plays. This concise biography offers a fresh look at a relentlessly compelling figure with a fascinating life of scandal and imprisonment.

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Information

Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781843919179
eBook ISBN
9781780940151

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Childhood, the Military and Marriage, 1740–63
  7. Dangerous Liaisons, 1763–71
  8. Incest, Debauchery and Flight, 1771–7
  9. Incarceration and Creativity, 1777–89
  10. ‘Citizen Sade’ and the Revolution, 1789–1801
  11. Charenton: The Final Years, 1801–14
  12. The Legacy
  13. Notes
  14. Select bibliography
  15. Biographical note