The Crimes of Love (Oxford World's Classics)
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Book Description
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.
This is the most complete 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. This new selection includes "An
Essay on Novels," Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. It also contains the preface to the collection and an important statement of Sade's 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. A skilled and artful story-teller, Marquis de Sade's is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life. Psychologically astute and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at
his best.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Crimes of Love (Oxford World's Classics),Marquis de Sade,David Coward,Oxford University Press, USA,019280507X,Classics,European - French,Fiction,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,16th to 18th century fiction,Classic fiction,Fiction / Short Stories (single author),Literature/English | World Literature | France
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