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Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary French fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of the Marquis de Sade before him, Klossowski's fiction explores the connections between the mind and the body through a lens of sexuality. Both of these novels feature Octave, an elderly cleric; his striking young wife Roberte; and their nephew, Antoine in a series of sexual situations. But Klossowski's books are about theology as well, and this merging of the sexual with the religious makes this book one of the most painstakingly baroque and intellectual novels of our time.

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.

Skandalös, behaupten die einen. Schmerzhaft notwendig, sagen die anderen. Die »120 Tage« des »göttlichen Marquis« polarisieren wie kaum ein zweites Werk der Weltliteratur. Vier Ehrenmänner halten 42 Frauen und Knaben auf einem Schloss gefangen und beraten, was mit ihnen zu tun sei. Da sie sich unbeobachtet wähnen, erliegen sie ihren Gelüsten und Begierden. Ungeachtet der Diskussionen, die das Buch auch heute noch auslöst, ist der Roman längst ein literarischer Klassiker, an dem niemand vorbeikommt, dem an einer rückhaltlosen Selbstaufklärung des Menschen gelegen ist.

Der Molekularbiologe und Medizin-Nobelpreisträger Jacques Monod stellt in seinem vieldiskutierten Buch die These auf, daß das Leben in all seinen Formen durch enen einzigen unwahrscheinliche Zufall entstanden ist.§