This book explores how Les Crimes de l'amour provides a key to better understanding Sade's prose in both its public and its clandestine guise. More than just a critical appraisal of each of the storie
"Since its publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic study by a si
Arguing that popular ideas of de Sade (1740-1814) and sadism are misrepresented stereotypes of his thinking, Traore (PhD, French studies, U. of Minnesota) reads his writings as reflections of Enlighte