Les Crimes de l'amour by Marquis de Sade

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. This aristocrat, revolutionary politician, and philosopher exhibited famous libertine lifestyle. 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. Psychologically astute and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade atĪ 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. A skilled and artful story-teller, Marquis de Sade's is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life.

Appendices include the denunciatory review of theĬollection that it received on publication, and Diderot's vigorous response. 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. This new selection includes 'AnĮssay on Novels,' Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. David Coward's vibrant new translation captures the verve of the original, and his introduction and notes describe Sade's notorious career. This is the most complete selection from the Marquis de Sade's four-volume collection of short stories, The Crimes of Love. Their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy

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.

Les Crimes de l'amour by Marquis de Sade