Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Van Loo (~1761)
Encyclopedia Entries
Questions of
Reading
- The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
- The Misfortunes of Virtue and other Early Tales
- Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings
- Juliette
- Philosophy in the Boudoir
- Letters from Prison
- The Mystified Magistrate and other Tales
- The Dramatic Works of the Marquis de Sade: Musicals and Spectacles
- Passionate Philosopher: The Marquis de Sade Reader
- The Crimes of Love
- Oeuvres
Writing available on the net
120
Days of Sodom (zipped PDF, 812k)
Philosophy
in the Bedroom (zipped PDF, 336k)
Retaliation (zipped PDF, 20k)
Commentaries
Margaret Crosland (ed), The Passionate Philosopher: a Marquis de Sade reader, 1993
Marquis de Sade, The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales, trans & ed David Coward, Oxford University Press, 1992
Donald Thomas, The Marquis de Sade, 1993
Roland Barthes, Life of Sade (zipped PDF, 32k)
Georges Bataille, The Use Value of D.A.F. de Sade (zipped PDF, 40k)
The Marquis De Sade by Simone De Beauvoir Grove Press, 1953Iwan Bloch, Marquis de Sade: His Life and Work (zipped PDF, 340k) 1899
The Marquis de Sade: A Life Neil Schaeffer 1999
Marquis de Sade: Monsieur Le Six
Quotations
"I have imagined everything conceivable in this sort of thing, but I have certainly not done, and certainly never will, all that I have imagined."
"All universal moral principles are idle fancies"