The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings
The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings by Marquis de Sade, translated by Richard Seaver, Austryn Wainhouse
English | January 10, 1994 | ISBN: 0802130127 | True EPUB | 780 pages | 2.9 MB
English | January 10, 1994 | ISBN: 0802130127 | True EPUB | 780 pages | 2.9 MB
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 Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1935.