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Lädt ... At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Lifevon Francine du Plessix Gray
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Extremely detailed. A book I've read on and off for ten years. I finally finished it, sometimes the detail was way too much. Fascinating and erotic, nonetheless. ( ) I've finally found time to read this book...nothing better than a hot summer "romance" :) I'm in the "throes" of his 13 yr. imprisonment. as kaelirenee mentioned having some background in French (and Italian) history helped me quite a bit imaging his movements through Vincennes, LaCoste, the Bastille, and other locations. Moreover, I can understand the French mentality of the time and how the Marquis fit and did not fit into it. I was hoping for a little more "licentiousness" and a little more psycho-analysis from Plessix Gray. So far her breif mention of Sade's lack of respect of women borne out his indifferent and absent mother during his formative years was predictable for me. I hope a more in-depth analysis of Sade as well as the mores of 18th century France will be discussed. ...or maybe our author is a gateway "drug" to more promising book about Sade...I hope not. This book took me a little while to get into, but after the first couple of chapters, I was hooked. Understanding a bit of French history helps in reading this book, but it isn't necessary. This book explains how the women in the Marquis' life effected him, inspired him, and possibly destroyed him. The research is impeccible and well-presented. Great for any student of European history, because it puts the story in the context of the time, or anyone who wants to know more about the man behind the concept of sadism. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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In this account of the scandalous life and the violent times of the Marquis de Sade, novelist, essayist, and biographer Francine du Plessix Gray resurrects this legendary man's relationship with his family - his devoted wife, his iron-willed mother-in-law, and his three children. Gray draws on thousands of pages of letters exchanged by the two spouses, few of which have been published in English, to explore in the fullest historical and psychological detail what it was like to be the Marquise de Sade, a decorous, upright woman married throughout the decades preceding the French Revolution to one of the most maverick spirits of recent times.
In the vast literature inspired by the marquis's fictional and real-life libertinism, relatively little attention has been given the two women who were closest to him: Renee-Pelagie de Sade, his adoring wife for more than a quarter of a century, and his powerful mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil. Gray brings to life these two remarkable women and their complex relationship with Sade as they dedicated themselves, each in her own way, to protecting him from the law, curbing his excesses, and ultimately confining him.
After years of indulging a variety of sexual aberrations, experiences he used in novels such as Justine, Philosophy in the Boudoir, and The 120 Days of Sodom, Sade was imprisoned on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Louis XVI at his mother-in-law's instigation. Throughout his thirteen years in jail, Madame de Sade was her husband's principal solace and his only lifeline to reality. It was only upon the onset of the French Revolution, when Sade was finally freed from the Bastille, that Pelagie made a sudden about-face from her decades of abject devotion.
In the course of telling this remarkable story, Gray vividly re-creates the extravagant hedonism of late eighteenth-century France; the ensuing terror of the French Revolution, when her protagonists lived in fear of imminent destruction; and the oppression of the Napoleonic regime under which Sade spent his last decade. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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