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Contes étranges
Sade est prisonnier. Il accumule les contes et nouvelles, dans une réflexion sur le sens du mal. En 1800, il publie onze récits sous le titre Crimes de l'amour, nouvelles héroïques et tragiques. Il les complète par des contes légers ou bizarres, qui paraîtront après sa mort : les Contes étranges. Ils regroupent des historiettes, qui relèvent de l'inspiration licencieuse propre aux conteurs de la Renaissance, et des contes et fabliaux, qui seraient les inventions d'un troubadour du XVIIIe siècle. Ces récits courts ne sont pas de simples essais en vue des grands romans. Ils constituent le pôle nécessaire d'une création romanesque qui fonctionne entre réalité et imaginaire, entre demande d'indulgence et revendication de l'outrance. Ils racontent la discordance du désir avec l'ordre social, de la réalité vécue avec les théories. Ils cartographient nos désirs comme nos hantises.
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First published June 26, 2014
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Marquis de Sade
624 books2,280 followersA preoccupation with sexual violence characterizes novels, plays, and short stories that Donatien Alphonse François, comte de Sade but known as marquis de Sade, of France wrote. After this writer derives the word sadism, the deriving of sexual gratification from fantasies or acts that involve causing other persons to suffer physical or mental pain.
This aristocrat, revolutionary politician, and philosopher exhibited famous libertine lifestyle.
His works include dialogues and political tracts; in his lifetime, he published some works under his own name and denied authorship of apparently anonymous other works. His best erotic works combined philosophical discourse with pornography and depicted fantasies with an emphasis on criminality and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. Morality, religion or law restrained not his "extreme freedom." Various prisons and an insane asylum incarcerated the aristocrat for 32 years of his life: ten years in the Bastile, another year elsewhere in Paris, a month in Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bicêtre, a year in Sainte-Pélagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum. During the French revolution, people elected this criminal as delegate to the National Convention. He wrote many of his works in prison.
This aristocrat, revolutionary politician, and philosopher exhibited famous libertine lifestyle.
His works include dialogues and political tracts; in his lifetime, he published some works under his own name and denied authorship of apparently anonymous other works. His best erotic works combined philosophical discourse with pornography and depicted fantasies with an emphasis on criminality and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. Morality, religion or law restrained not his "extreme freedom." Various prisons and an insane asylum incarcerated the aristocrat for 32 years of his life: ten years in the Bastile, another year elsewhere in Paris, a month in Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bicêtre, a year in Sainte-Pélagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum. During the French revolution, people elected this criminal as delegate to the National Convention. He wrote many of his works in prison.
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