Richard Seaver Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century—from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and Kafka—is indisputable. This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine. This literary portrait of Sade is completed by one of his earliest philosophical efforts, Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man, a selection of his letters, a fifty-page chronology of his life, two important essays on Sade, and a bibliography of his work.

Marquis de Sade (1740 bis 1814) verfaßte "Die Hundertzwanzig Tage von Sodom" während seiner Gefangenschaft in der Bastille. Hier entfaltet er seine Philosophie des Lasters und veranschaulicht sie an 600 Beispielen. So entstand ein "Kompendium sexueller Verirrungen" (Karl von Haveland), das ihm auch den Ruf eines ersten Systematikers der Psychopathia sexualis einbrachte. Die hier als Nachdruck vorliegende Ausgabe erschien erstmalig 1905 als Privatdruck in Leipzig.

Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism