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Marquis de Sade

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Description:The secret and scandalous journal which the Marquis de Sade risked severe punishment in order to maintain, even when ill and ageing at Charenton asylum, reveals the shadowy life of an exceptional, complex man whose philosophies and works are legendary. This book contains the living, everyday presence of Sade as an old man, almost 67 years old when the "first notebook" begins of his once-lost journal. In the "hospital-prison" of Charenton, under a liberal regime of surveillance, Sade's days were slow and grim, full of mundane preoccupations, worries about money, quarrels with the people around him “ but were also lit up by the sordid, secret episodes of a final erotic the last flames of his passion for a teenaged serving-girl, an affirmation of life even as death approached, darkening the colours of his life and tearing apart his feelings. Only the first (1807“8) and fourth (1814) of these notebooks have been rediscovered, out of a series of four; they are now presented in English for the very first time.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Charenton Journals: Prison Diaries of a Sadist. To get started finding The Charenton Journals: Prison Diaries of a Sadist, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 65

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Elektron Ebooks

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1909923028

Description: The secret and scandalous journal which the Marquis de Sade risked severe punishment in order to maintain, even when ill and ageing at Charenton asylum, reveals the shadowy life of an exceptional, complex man whose philosophies and works are legendary. This book contains the living, everyday presence of Sade as an old man, almost 67 years old when the "first notebook" begins of his once-lost journal. In the "hospital-prison" of Charenton, under a liberal regime of surveillance, Sade's days were slow and grim, full of mundane preoccupations, worries about money, quarrels with the people around him “ but were also lit up by the sordid, secret episodes of a final erotic the last flames of his passion for a teenaged serving-girl, an affirmation of life even as death approached, darkening the colours of his life and tearing apart his feelings. Only the first (1807“8) and fourth (1814) of these notebooks have been rediscovered, out of a series of four; they are now presented in English for the very first time.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Charenton Journals: Prison Diaries of a Sadist. To get started finding The Charenton Journals: Prison Diaries of a Sadist, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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