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Brief lives : Marquis de Sade / David Carter.
LIBRA PQ2063.S3 C37 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, David R., 1945-
- Series:
- Brief lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814.
- Sade.
- Erotic literature writers--France--Biography.
- Erotic literature writers.
- Novelists, French--18th century--Biography.
- Novelists, French.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 117 pages ; 20 cm.
- Other Title:
- Marquis de Sade
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hesperus, 2011.
- Summary:
- As explicit in his prose as he was in his private life, the Marquis de Sade remains one of the most controversial writers of all time. Arrested many times for sexual misdemeanours, the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, where he was writing 120 Days of Sodom and The Misfortunes of Virtue at the time that it was stormed in 1789. After the French Revolution he was again imprisoned and sent to an asylum, where he wrote diaries and plays. With the details of his life writ large in gossip sheets and whispered in outraged Parisian salons, de Sade's life story is as unpredictable and scandalous as his ever-popular prose.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Childhood, the military and marriage, 1740-60
- Dangerous liaisons, 1763-71
- Incest, debauchery and flight, 1771-7
- Incarceration and creativity, 1777-89
- 'Citizen Sade' and the revolution, 1789-1801
- Charenton: the final years, 1801-14
- The legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-115).
- ISBN:
- 1843919176
- 9781843919179
- OCLC:
- 315081100
- Publisher Number:
- 99946280332
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