Marquis de Sade Selections from His Writings + Study by Simone de Beauvoir 1953

Description: Marquis de Sade: Selections from His Writings and a Study by Simone de Beauvoir (Rare 1953 Grove Press First Softcover Edition)Edmund Wilson (in the New Yorker) called this study by Simone de Beauvoir, "Perhaps the very best thing that has yet been written on the subject." In addition to Mme. de Beauvoir's acute analysis of the philosophy of Sade in her brilliant essay, "Must We Burn Sade?" , this volume offers a large choice of selections from the writings of the Marquis that have been chosen to show the full range of his powers, a detailed chronology of his life, and a bibliography."...a fantastic and revolutionary writer. Sade's work, written almost entirely in prison, would seem to be forever disgraced and banned: for bringing it to light would mean the death of a world where the root of evil is baseness and stupidity." - Paul Eluard"The Marquis de Sade, the freest spirit that has yet existed." - Guillaume Apollinaire"The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) has been labeled everything from a sadomasochistic pornographer (The 120 Days of Sodom) to the fiction writer responsible for the ideas that led to the Nazi death camps. Must We Burn Sade? Peels away the negative legacy that has shrouded Sade for too long." - Ahmad Sharabiani, GoodReadsRare Vintage Softcover / Grove Press / 1953 / First Printing Thus / Very Good Condition

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