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Marquis de Sade, David Coward
£7.99
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The Crimes of Love
Heroic and tragic Tales, Preceded by an Essay on Novels
Marquis de Sade
Translated by David Coward
400 pages
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196x129mm
978-0-19-953998-7
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Paperback
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12 June 2008
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- This is the fullest selection from the Marquis de Sade's four-volume collection of short stories, The Crimes of Love. David Coward's vibrant new translation captures the verve of the original, and his introduction and notes describe Sade's notorious career.
- The stories variously depict the desperate lengths to which people are driven by passion, and feature embezzlement, abduction, murder and incest.
- This selection includes the 'Essay on Novels', the preface to the collection and an important statement of his concept of fiction and one of the few literary manifestoes published during the Revolution.
- Appendices include the denunciatory review of the collection that it received on publication, and Diderot's vigorous response.
'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...'
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories; tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love.
Psychologically astute, and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at his best. A skilled and artful storyteller, he is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life, for which we have yet to find the answers. This new selection includes 'An Essay on Novels', Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. Readership: Readers and students of French literature, cultural studies, women's studies
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Marquis de Sade Translated by David Coward, Professor of Modern French Literature, University of Leeds
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"[An] excellent new edition... A recommended introduction to the Sadean oeuvre for anyone genuinely interested in the ideas that won him enduring notoriety." - Ruth Scurr, Times Literary Supplement
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An Essay on Novels
Miss Henrietta Stralson, or The Effects of Despair
Faxelange, or the Faults of Ambition
Florville and Courval, or Fatality
Rodrigo, or The Enchanted Tower
Ernestine. A Swedish Tale
The Countess of Sancerre, or Her Daughter's Rival
Eugénie de Franval. A Tragic Tale
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