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The 120 Days Of Sodom: And Other Writings (Arena Books) Paperback – 4 Jul 1991

by Marquis De Sade D.A.F. (Author), Simone de Beauvoir (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 816 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow; New Ed edition (4 July 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099629607
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099629603
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 4.2 x 19.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 477,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Sade was one of the most radical minds in Western history, one that touched, with astonishing fusion of madness and cold rationality, on some of the most central aspects of psychic life... He remains a great, horrifying, but also vastly illuminating figure" (Newsweek)

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The magnum opus of infamous French libertine, aristocrat, erotic author and extremist politician, the Marquis de Sade. The ultimate exploration of sexual deviation including sado-masochism and violent sexual abuse, this is a shocking insight into the psychopathology of sex, seen through the eyes of history's most famous sexual deviant. With an introduction by famous feminist writer and literary critic, Simone de Beauvoir.

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5.0 out of 5 starsComic and cruel
By Kindle Customer on 16 Mar. 2001
Format: Paperback
De Sade's opus and no surprise that his name would forever more be synonymous with vicious acts meted out purely for sexual gratification. A catalogue of sexual deviations, degenerating into ever-increasing cruelty as a group of captives (mainly children) are tormented and tortured to death.
An excellent translation. It is a surprisingly comic work which draws the reader in. It is also a subversive work, portraying the horrors as perpetrated by those with the unlimited resources to indulge their murderous tastes and the power or connections to avoid having to answer for them. Often they represent the law, as with the judge who always sentences everyone appearing before him to death, so that he can watch the execution from an overlooking apartment whilst fornicating at the same time.
Written in prison, it is incomplete. Only the first 30 days have been written out in full; the rest being in note form. It still makes for entertaining reading, although it is probably this incompleteness which makes the entire work disproportionately concerned with eating excrement (one of the earlier and milder sexual quirks).
Even in a world largely numbed to horror, some of this stuff is still unbelievable. Essential reading for anyone interested in the human psyche.
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3.0 out of 5 starsCould be potentially dangerous in the wrong hands...
By Angel Star on 23 Feb. 2014
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I finished reading this book a few weeks ago and have toyed with writing a review since then, pondering the question, can you give a just review to an unfinished piece such as this?? This was to be the authors masterpiece work and I feel he would have been horrified that it was published in draft form, although would have thrived on the notoriety it gave him. My review and star rating, marked at 3 for "average" reflect this thinking.

It must be borne in mind before reading this that this is an unfinished work and that it is not an erotic novel. I read this book purely as a study of the Marquis de Sade, and his imagination was definitely fascinating.

Only the first part of this book is written in detail. Had the book been finished it would have no doubt been heavily edited, as, in my opinion it was already MANY pages too long. Anyway, as is, the book has so many characters that it is nearly impossible to form any find of emotion towards any of them, therefore, you don't really care what happens to them - would be comparable to watching shooting in a war zone on the evening news. The characters who are written in more detail, although of interest to the reader are thoroughly unlikeable.

The writer alludes to things and requests the readers patience as all will be revealed later in the book. It isn't, as he never got that far, this is frustrating and the reader is left trying to imagine the horrors. He writes about depravity and cruelty with wit and humour and therefore the book does not have a dark sinister tone which makes it easily readable. The use of language is very articulate and gives a feel that this book could have been written in very recent years.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsDoes what it says on the tin
By M P Crouch on 16 Dec. 2013
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120 Days of Sodom is a book beyond criticism - good or bad. Early on in the work there's a warning that all honest pleasures to be had out of reading a book are completely banished - This is True! The Duc du Blangis who " has killed his mother, his sister, and three of his wives," retires with three other 'nobles' to a remote castle taking 42 unfortunate victims, both male and female with him. There beyond anyone's interference the four perpetrate vile sexual perversions on the victims leading to mutilation and murder. As an arrogant and impatient reader always ready to read or watch anything supposedly shocking or offensive, I started reading the novel inwardly demanding it be much more horrible or even different to anything I had experienced before - WELL - IT WAS - It was nearly too much for me sometimes, I read it slowly and carefully concentrating all the time, for I won't be reading it a second time, and it more than lived up to it's reputation though of course rather repetitive. No honest pleasure is to be had from the story, and I mean none, except occasionally humour, in its excesses - Lumpy s***s last stand - but it is unusual, if by any chance you've seen Pasolini's excellent film Salo which is based on Sade's novel don't be misled, good as the movie is it doesn't hint at the monstrousness of the Marquis's book. Strangely as the story approaches the end of its 120 days and the murders begin it seemed less revolting to me, perhaps because violent death is fairly normal in literature, the rest of the book is not normal, its completely different - so there it is - M P Crouch.
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4.0 out of 5 starsRead it for the right reasons!
By Mr Anthony K. Walker/anthonykarl@awalker28.freeserve.co.uk on 18 April 2000
Format: Paperback
See a bishop, a nobleman, a lawyer and a banker getting up to their antics, which I would call murderous, except that it`s fiction. In real life, these types get up to REAL murderous things - but they won`t be found here. Instead, many will probably buy and read it for the wrong reasons. I would issue a warning that this is not Sade`s best work by a long shot and will teach you nothing about Sade as a man and thinker; only about his bitterness in prison. It is important to remember, if you buy this book, that it was Sade`s revulsion for atrocity and hypocrisy which prompted him to write this Absurdist saga. Recommended, but NOT as an introduction for one who is ignorant of Sade! For better intros, carry on down the list of works and check out FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY and MAURICE LEVER. Or read: THE MYSTIFIED MAGISTRATE, CRIMES OF LOVE, or GOTHIC TALES. (And better still: LETTERS FROM PRISON) Anthony Walker.
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Excellent book can have some extremely challenging text and I suggest that only people over the age of 17 read due to sexual context

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