The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
Description
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 Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1935.
Product Details
Price
$18.00
$16.74
Publisher
Grove Press
Publish Date
January 10, 1994
Pages
799
Dimensions
5.46 X 8.22 X 1.4 inches | 1.38 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780802130129
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About the Author
Perhaps the most infamous writer of all time, The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) is author of Justine, Juliette, and 120 Days of Sodom.
Richard Seaver was an editor, publisher, and translator who became legendary for championing unconventional writers in the face of censorship and cultural prudishness. He was the editor in chief of Grove Press in the 1960s, started his own imprint at Viking in 1971, and served as publisher of Holt, Rinehart & Winston until he founded Arcade Publishing in 1988, which he ran with his wife, Jeannette, until his death in 2009. He was the author of The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age.
