"Justine", "Philosophy in the Bedroom" and Other Writings

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For not only does he invite us to slay our neighbors and our parents, he would have us kill our own wives. He causes no end of bother to his powerful, his redoubtable inlaws, the President and the Presidente de Montreuil: does that justify two years in a fortress? Is there anything to be added to what has already been said about the advantage and need of punishment for the wrongdoer?

He advocates the strong respect each other's freedom, but he admits that they are under no obligation to do so.Would it not strongly appear as if, for a whole string of French governments, any and every excuse sufficed for clapping him behind bars? The discusions on philosophy, such as the philosophy of crime leading to true freedom is quite a bit more interesting to me as I am more interested in philosophy in general.

He advocates a society where the strong (rich and powerful) use the weak (everyone else) as objects of pleasure without fear of legal reprisal. that mighty and obsessing murmur which sometimes arises from literature, and is perhaps its justification: Amiel, Montaigne, the Kalevala, the Ramayana. If it be objected that these I include among sacred books have never had their religion nor their faithful, I shall begin my reply by saying that it is a very good thing and that we should be glad (thereby being in a freer position to judge the books on their own merits instead of by their effects).And here is where even those among us who are not overly scrupulous find themselves all of a sudden betwixt and between, torn by conflicting feelings, deprived alike of the advantages of a good conscience and of a bad. This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine.

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The savage is not noble in any sense that we might recognize; he is merely a bundle of appetites, and he waits just below the patina of civilization for any chance to sate his lusts. De Sade takes ample opportunity to rehash his philosophies on atheism, sodomy, incest, thievery and murder, in the various punishments inflicted upon poor Justine. This literary portrait of Sade is completed by one of his earliest philosophical efforts, Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man, a selection of his letters, a fifty-page chronology of his life, two important essays on Sade, and a bibliography of his work. 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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. The small nightdresser presents itself in the trendy Scandinavian living style and impresses with its easy-care surfaces and modern look. Personally, I started out fascinated but found there to be little value until I started reading secondary essays, biographies of the man and his other works. The Marquis de Sade Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and other writings By Richard Seaver, Austryn Wainhouse Grove Atlantic, Inc.