Sade: The Libertine Novels - Hardcover

Phillips, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745315046 ISBN 13: 9780745315041

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2001

Synopsis

This is a lively and accessible introduction to the Marquis de Sade's four most notorious novels: 120 Days of Sodom, Philosophy in the Boudoir, Justine and Juliette. Informed by a wide range of contemporary theories, John Phillips’s controversial study challenges conventional perspectives on the notorious 'pornographer' and suggests new ways of reading his most shocking narratives. Setting all four novels in their historical and biographical context, Phillips provides a comprehensive and highly readable analysis of works that have exercised an enormous influence on literature, art and cinema in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Clearly written and accessible to the general reader, this study provides an indispensable guide to the creative achievements of the libertine’s libertine.

About this title

About the Author:

John Phillips is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of North London. His most recent book is Forbidden Fictions, also available from Pluto Press.

Review:

'A fine addition to Sadean studies.’ --Gaëtan Brulotte, Professor of French, University of South Florida

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0745315046
• ISBN 13: 9780745315041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216