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the Marquis de Sade, alongside Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H.—
A.K. Blakemore • The Glutton: A Novel
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
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Camus écrit : « deux siècles à l'avance, sur une échelle réduite, Sade a exalté les sociétés totalitaires au nom de la liberté frénétique que la révolte en réalité ne réclame pas. Avec lui commence réellement l'histoire et la tragédie contemporaines » (III. 100). Comment cette
Michel Onfray • L'ordre libertaire: La vie philosophique d'Albert Camus (French Edition)
On the contrary, Sade argued, we are monsters from the beginning. Man’s nature is his desires, and only by following our desires to the end can we find out what our natures are, no matter how appalling the conclusions we reach. His motto was, in effect, written by the mild Englishman William Blake: “Sooner murder an Infant in its Cradle than nurse
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