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Vintage copy of the book The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings, compiled and translated by Austryn Wainhouse & Richard Seaver. Introductions by Simone de Beauvoir & Pierre Klossowski.
First American edition, Second printing.
Dust jacket has small tears on the edges. The book itself is in very good condition. Please see the images and ask all questions before purchasing. I do not specialize in vintage books.
The 120 Days of Sodom is the Marquis de Sade's masterpiece. A still unsurpassed catalogue of sexual perversions and the first systematic exploration of the psychopathology of sex, it was written during Sade's lengthy imprisonment for sexual deviancy and blasphemy and then lost after the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution in 1789. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing achievement.
Later rediscovered, the manuscript remained unpublished until 1936 and is now introduced by Simone de Beauvoir's landmark essay, 'Must We Burn Sade?' Unique in its enduring capacity to shock and provoke, The 120 Days of Sodom must stand as one of the most controversial books ever written, and a fine example of the Libertine novel, a genre inspired by eroticism and anti-establishmentarianism, that effectively ended with the French Revolution.
Title: The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
Author: De Sade, The Marquis
Format: Hardcover
Book condition: Used - Very Good
Publisher: Grove Press Inc., N.Y.
Date published: 1966
Product code: The Marquis de Sade 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings, hotsell Simone de Beauvoir, Erotica