Publisher's Synopsis
The Marquis de Sade's secret journal, kept while he was ailing in Charenton asylum, reveals the shadowy life of an exceptional, strange man whose abuses are legendary. The book takes us beyond the prisoner who once fled the Vincennes fortress; it also takes us beyond the prisoner of the Bastille whose imagination tortured him, both deliciously and cruelly, and who projected onto paper the burning and pitiable ghosts of his imagination with a desperate sensuality. This book contains the living, everyday presence of the 67-year-old man, when the first notebook begins.
