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Biography

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...


Quotations
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Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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
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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...


News and Journals
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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,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David B. Morris
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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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Hegemonic Moral Values and the Marquis de Sade
1,343 words, approx. 5 pages
A discussion of hegemonic moral values and their effects upon those subservient to them.
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Essay Grade: 94%
Marquis de Sade: Madman or Genius
878 words, approx. 3 pages
An analysis of the works of Marquis de Sades and his personality.


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