The Marquis de Sade: A Life

Neil Schaeffer presents here a wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the divine Marquis, the enigmatic legend whose name is synonymous with brutal perversion and cruelty. Against a magnificently embroidered backdrop of eighteenth-century France, he shows us Sade's incredible life of sexual appetite, adherence to Enlightenment principles, imprisonment, scandal, and above all inexhaustible imagination. Based on a decade of research and utilizing work never before published in English, The Marquis de Sade is a definitive work that confronts nearly two hundred years of myth to reveal a Promethean figure of astonishing complexity.

Author: Neil Schaeffer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 11/01/2000
Pages: 577
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.20w x 1.49d
ISBN: 9780674003927

About the Author
Schaeffer, Neil: - Neil Schaeffer is Professor of English Literature at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.