Adorned with gripping cover art and translated by renowned scholar paul j. Bonaparte ordered the arrest of sade who, as a result, was incarcerated for the last years of his. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Justine, or the misfortunes of virtue oxford world s. Sades writings have become a byword for transgression and obscenity, and the logical amorality of his philosophy still has the power to shock. It is also the first ever critical edition, based on the original 1791 version of the story, which is the most accessible and artistically successful of the three versions. Napoleon bonaparte called justine the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination.
An infamous and perverse criminal, sade was imprisoned for much of his life, where he had ample time to hone his talent for writing scandalous and mindblowing erotic novels such as justine, juliette, and his. Set before the french revolution, it is the story of justine and her sister, two women caught between pursuing lives of virtue or lives of vice. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading justine. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. It contains relatively little of the obscenity which characterized his later writing.
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