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The translator of de Sade's fiction here shows us a completely different side to the notorious Marquis. In 1948, de Sade's French biographer Gilbert Lely, discovered a cache of letters written in Vincennes Prison, the Bastille and the Charenton asylum between 1777 and 1790. In an introduction to his translation of the letters, Richard Seaver sets out the historical background, assesses whether de Sade's activities were crimes by placing him in the context of his time and traces the history of the censorship and final publication of his works and the growth in his reputation as a great French writer. The letters do not foreground de Sade as fiction writer or cruel sexual predator. Here, the Marquis, who spent over half his adult life in prison, writes more personally to his wife, mother-in-law, friends, jailers, business associates and employees. He is concerned above all to describe the devastating effects of incarceration on a man whose personal philosophy and aristocratic background made him value first and foremost his freedom to be himself. He pleads, petitions, threatens, insults, badgers, becomes delusional and tries to manipulate his correspondents, all the while wrestling with the vast mental pressure prison puts on him and the injustice he thinks has been done to him by his mother-in-law, Mme de Montreuil, whom he blames above all for his position. At other times he describes his cell, his ailments, asks for home comforts, gives instructions about his finances and sends endearments, or sometimes curses, to his wife. What emerges here is a classic of prison literature. De Sade not only questions whether the physical tortures of imprisonment will do anything to change him but also makes the reader reassess where society should draw the line in matters of punishing someone for their individual sexuality. (Kirkus UK)
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A collection of letters written from prison by the Marquis de Sade. They are principally written to his beloved (and devoted) wife and to his hated mother-in-law, Madame la presidente de Montreuil. They offer insights into society, religion, morals, politics, and his fellow men - and women.
The translator of de Sade's fiction here shows us a completely different side to the notorious Marquis. In 1948, de Sade's French biographer Gilbert Lely, discovered a cache of letters written in Vincennes Prison, the Bastille and the Charenton asylum between 1777 and 1790. In an introduction to his translation of the letters, Richard Seaver sets out the historical background, assesses whether de Sade's activities were crimes by placing him in the context of his time and traces the history of the censorship and final publication of his works and the growth in his reputation as a great French writer. The letters do not foreground de Sade as fiction writer or cruel sexual predator. Here, the Marquis, who spent over half his adult life in prison, writes more personally to his wife, mother-in-law, friends, jailers, business associates and employees. He is concerned above all to describe the devastating effects of incarceration on a man whose personal philosophy and aristocratic background made him value first and foremost his freedom to be himself. He pleads, petitions, threatens, insults, badgers, becomes delusional and tries to manipulate his correspondents, all the while wrestling with the vast mental pressure prison puts on him and the injustice he thinks has been done to him by his mother-in-law, Mme de Montreuil, whom he blames above all for his position. At other times he describes his cell, his ailments, asks for home comforts, gives instructions about his finances and sends endearments, or sometimes curses, to his wife. What emerges here is a classic of prison literature. De Sade not only questions whether the physical tortures of imprisonment will do anything to change him but also makes the reader reassess where society should draw the line in matters of punishing someone for their individual sexuality. (Kirkus UK)
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A collection of letters written from prison by the Marquis de Sade. They are principally written to his beloved (and devoted) wife and to his hated mother-in-law, Madame la presidente de Montreuil. They offer insights into society, religion, morals, politics, and his fellow men - and women.
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