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120 Days of Sodom (Arena Books) (Paperback)

by Marquis De Sade D.A.F. (Author), Simone de Beauvoir (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 800 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 Sep 1989)
  • ISBN-10: 0099629607
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099629603
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 129,760 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Comic and cruel, 16 Mar 2001
By nrkelly@yahoo.com (London, England) - See all my reviews
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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40 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Read it for the right reasons!, 18 April 2000
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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26 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Very overrated, 10 Mar 2003
By robojam - See all my reviews
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I read this book really knowing very little about it. I had heard it described as 'a catalogue of perversions', and that probably describes it very well. It is not simply that it is a list of extreme perversions, as it is actually quite well written, and has a lot of comedy in it (as paradoxical as that might seem considering the subject matter).

The problem I have with it is that it has no real direction or meaning; it is like a shopping list of violent sexual crimes with some humour thrown in. It needs something else if it is going to rise above that.

If you like your comedy to include priests bribing pre-pubescent girls to urinate in front of them; pregnant women being rolled down a slope in a barrel that has had nails hammered through it; or early teenage girls being forced to eat excrement and having their eyes poked out and their nipples cut off, then this is for you. I suspect that for the vast majority of people it won't be their cup of tea.

Why this has become a classic is beyond me. If it wasn't for the fact that Sade enjoyed this kind of lifestyle himself (albeit in a milder form), then he may have been able to write a book that didn't come over as something that he wrote because he found extreme sexual perversions, torture and murder as something erotic.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Horrifying to think that people can enjoy such torture
I didn't finish this book and find it very difficult to rate it. At first I was interested in all the characters of the book and all their different sexual persausions. Read more
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De Sade paints a powerful picture of a deliberate and apparently regular descent into hell (or libertine heaven, depending on who you are in the book) by a selected cast of... Read more
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