Sublime

the Marquis de Sade, alongside Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H.—

The “Divine Marquis” was one of the few eighteenth-century figures the Surrealists admired, because – at great length and with stupefying prolixity, as anyone knows who has made the effort of reading Justine and Juliette – he had argued the supremacy of Desire over all moral contracts and shown what has become a commonplace since Freud: that, in

Ninguém pode ser ao mesmo tempo libertino e um romântico casado, por mais atraentes que os dois paradigmas sejam.