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| Name: |
Sade, Comte de | | Variant Name: |
Donatien Alphonse François | | Birth Date: |
June 2, 1740 | | Death Date: |
December 8, 1814 | | Place of Birth: |
Paris, France | | Place of Death: |
Charenton, France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of Sade, Comte de
721 words, approx. 2 pages
 The French writer of psychological and philosophical works Donatien Alphonse François, Comte de Sade (1740-1814), was also a libertine, debaucher, pornographer, and sadist--a term derived from his name. The Marquis de Sade has been traditionally...


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Marquis de Sade Quotes
1,322 words, approx. 4 pages
 Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740–1814), better known as the Marquis de Sade ; French writer of philosophy -laden and often violent pornography , as well as some strictly philosophical works. His is a philosophy of extreme freedom ,...


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Marquis de Sade Information
4,784 words, approx. 16 pages
 Donatien Alphonse-François de Sade (June 2, 1740 – December 2, 1814) (pronounced IPA: [maʁki: dəsad]) was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a philosopher of extreme freedom (or at least...




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Canonizing the Marquis de Sade.
07/01/1996: 525 words, approx. 2 pages Literature professor Roger Shattuck has attacked the revival of the literature of the Marquis de Sade and attempts to celebrate him as an important writer. Sade's supporters counter that he is an influential thinker who challenged the literary establishment. In 1948 in Paris,...
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 The Women's Review of Books
At Home With the Marquis De Sade.(Review)
06/01/1999: 2,662 words, approx. 9 pages Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade was a man monstrously alone. His aloneness is famously a matter of the years he spent behind bars - thirteen of them in prison without trial in mid-life, and another thirteen in a madhouse at the end. But when a...
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 The New York Observer
You\'d5ll Know It When You See It
12/3/2006: 982 words, approx. 3 pages John Ruskin, the English art critic, never consummated his marriage because on his wedding night, he discovered with revulsion that his wife’s pubis did not present the smooth, polished surface of a Greek statue, but was instead covered with hair. Ho ho ho, we laugh,...
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 The New York Observer
You'll Know It When You See It
12/3/2006: 982 words, approx. 3 pages John Ruskin, the English art critic, never consummated his marriage because on his wedding night, he discovered with revulsion that his wife’s pubis did not present the smooth, polished surface of a Greek statue, but was instead covered with hair. Ho ho ho, we laugh,...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David B. Morris
8,625 words, approx. 29 pages
 Morris is an American literary critic who has also published studies on eighteenth-century English poetry. In the following excerpt, he explores Sade's use and transformation of contemporary ideas about pain and the social and political implications of this aspect of Sade's work
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Critical Essay by Julie Candler Hayes
7,392 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following excerpt, Hayes examines the role of conflicting ideologies in Sade's plays and novels, concentrating in particular on his disruption of structure and meaning.
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Critical Essay by Frances Ferguson
6,370 words, approx. 21 pages
 In this excerpt, Ferguson discusses Philosophy in the Bedroom as an "antimetaphysical" and "anticultural" political dialogue and relates elements of the text to French policy regarding the national debt.
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