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The five stories in this collection are taken from Les Crimes de I'Amour, originally published in 1800. Sade is best known for his major sensational books, yet in his lifetime these appeared in anonymous or clandestine editions. It was while he was detained in prison and incarcerated in the asylum at Charenton that he decided to follow his 'philosophical' novel Aline et Valcour with writings more accessible to the general public. He wanted to prove he was not a mere pornographer but a moralist, like Voltaire and other contemporaries. In Crimes of Love Sade contends that love can often lead to crime, and thence to punishment.
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'To brief stories of lewd monks, ruttish wives and cuckolds, he added longer and darker intrigues in the fashionable Gothic vein. Published as Les Crimes de l'Amour, they show off Sade's literary skills to good effect. They survive admirably in Margaret Crosland's excellent new translation of the five longer narratives.' - TLS 'The Crimes of Love is an atypical selection of work from a man whose example we cite as the prototype of sexual cruelty. Perhaps driven by remorse for having once "flagellated working-class women', Sade now becomes a champion (however tarnished) of the female cause, giving women the dominant roles in his fiction and always avenging their lost honour - rape and incest are crimes punishable by death. What is the moral of these delightful stories? Perhaps that even a sadist can feel sad.' - Financial Times 'Sadeologists should be fascinated.' - Daily Telegraph
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Margaret Crosland was one of the first people to translate the work of the Marquis de Sade in to English and remains a leading authority on his life and work. Among her translations for Peter Owen are The Mystified Magistrate and The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade. She also compiled the recent paperback anthology of his writings, The Marquis de Sade Reader.
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- PublisherPeter Owen Publishers
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0720609860
- ISBN 13 9780720609868
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages125
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