Paperback, 376 pages
Published March 26, 2009 by Wilder Publications.
A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel.
This disturbing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter clashed over him. This new translation brings Sade's provocative novel into Penguin Classics for the first time, and will reignite the debate around this most controversial of writers.
Sade was clearly a man of taste. My friend and I fucked while listening to this book and came away jizzing out of laughter and not out of the profound erotic quality this book undoubtedly possesses. From this day on, I will have to remind myself to be happy, if not for any other reason but the fact that this book survived all the hardships. Vive le libertin.
