100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed
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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 Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1935.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Part One Critical; Must We Burn Sade? by Simone de Beauvoir; Nature as Destructive Principle by Pierre Klossowski; Part Two from Les Crimes de l' Amour; Reflections on the Novel (1800); Villeterque's Review of Les Crimes de l'Amour (1800); The Author of Les Crimes de l'Amour to Villeterque, Hack Writer (1803); Florville and Courval, or The Works of Fate (1788); Part Three The 120 Days of Sodom (1785); Part Four Theater; Oxtiern, or The Misfortunes of Libertinage (1800); Ernestine, A Swedish Tale (1788)
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