Understanding Sade

A feast of the body and, above all, a feast of words, Sade''s work continues to reach out to us through the fusions it creates. Philosophy? Pornography? Farce? Like Madame de Saint-Ange in her boudoir, Sade could exclaim: "I''m an amphibious animal. I love everything. I enjoy everything. I want to bring all genres together." In keeping with Sade''s concern for totality, this book follows the biogr...