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The 120 Days of Sodom
by Marquis de Sade
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The 120 Days of Sodom Summary:
| Because of the extreme obscenity that we find in his writings they have always been a favorite target of censors, and it wasn't until the mid-sixties that unexpurgated editions of Sade's works became available in English translation in the United States. The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit tht has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration -- a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud -- of the psychopathology of sex, it is considered Sade's crowning achievement and the cornerstone of his thought. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1935. |
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Publication of the Marquis de Sade's infamous works were subject to a lengthy court dispute in France, with Olympia losing in the end (Girodias eventually relocated to NY as America and the UK began liberalizing just as legendary Gallic tolerance shifted in another direction).
The plot is simple: a group of amoral libertines retire to a sealed chateau with an entourage of innocent victims, all of whom are murdered in ways both sexual and Byzantine. De Sade's taste for death and torture may have exceeded the strength of his hand as after about many pages of exquisitely detailed sexual mayhem, he begins to dispatch the cast in wholesale lots. Still, it can inspire fantasies, if, we hope, not actions. |
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