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The 120 Days of Sodom

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Description for The 120 Days of Sodom Paperback. Translator(s): Wynn, Thomas; McMorran, Will; Wynn, Thomas; McMorran, Will. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 5X; FC; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 320.
WINNER OF THE 2017 SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE 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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141394343
SKU
9780141394343
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About Marquis de Sade
The Marquis de Sade (Author) The Marquis de Sade was born in Paris in 1740. He was imprisoned several times for his scandalous behaviour, and wrote The 120 Days of Sodom, his most notorious work, while in prison in the Bastille. He managed to ingratiate himself with the new regime after the French Revolution, but by 1796 ... Read more

Reviews for The 120 Days of Sodom
We thought this translation was quite exceptional in its capacity to capture the true voice of this strange and difficult eighteenth-century text, the textual and editorial scholarship of the translators, their wonderful handling of the terminology and the diction of the original, along with the fluency of their translation, and the ways in which it creates for the first time ... Read more

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