Philosophy in the Boudoir (Velvet Series, Vol. 1) - Softcover

Marquis De Sade

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1871592097 ISBN 13: 9781871592092

Publisher: The Tears Corporation/Creation, 1991

Synopsis

In the boudoir of a sequestered chateau, a young virgin is ruthlessly schooled in evil. Indoctrinated by her amoral tutors in the ways of sexual perversion, fornication, murder, incest, atheism and wanton self-gratification, she takes part with growing abandon in a series of violent erotic orgies which culminates with the flagellation and torture of her own mother - her final act of liberation.
Philosophy In The Boudoir is the most concise representative text out of all the Marquis de Sade's works, containing his notorious doctrine of libertinage expounded in full, coupled with liberal doses of unbridled eroticism, cruelty and violent sexuality. The renegade philosophies put forward here would later rank amongst the main cornerstones of Andre Breton's Surrealist manifesto.

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Taken from the forward by James Havoc: The Marquis de Sade (1740 - 1814) was a self-proclaimed libertine. His doctrine of libertinage as expounded in Philosophy in the Boudoir - his masterpiece - now reads like a blueprint for those manifestos drawn up will over a century later by Andre Breton; indeed Philosophy in the Boudoir has often been regarded as being amongst the first Surrealist texts - the others also being works by De Sade. In the course of this book - erotic, comical, and terrifyingly bleak in turn - he contrives to heap scorn on Christianity, God, and the Church, religion in general, history, marriage and the nuclear family, morality, all love other than sexual love, faith, hope and charity, parenthood, vaginal sex; i.e. all forms of humanity and virtue. At the same time, he advocates atheism, murder and reflexive crimes, torture, cruelty, abortion, all kind of sexual perversion, incest, adultery, self-abuse, ad infinitum; his sexually violent visions mark him as a precursor of modern psychology.

The modern imagination starts here.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Tears Corporation/Creation
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1871592097
• ISBN 13: 9781871592092
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2