Publisher's Synopsis
Revered by Enlightenment and Victorian thinkers, de Sade was recognized as a founding father by the Surrealists, and holds a prominent place in the history of modernism and post-modernism. This selection of his early writings, some appearing in English translation for the first time, reveals the full range of his sobering moods and considerable talents.;This book is intended for students of eighteenth-century French literature; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; European cultural studies.;Translated and edited by: Coward, David (University of Leeds);
