The Mystified Magistrate and Other Tales - Softcover

De Sade, Marquis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559705795 ISBN 13: 9781559705790

Publisher: Import US, 2001

Synopsis

The great virtue of this volume is that it reveals a lighter, comic side of Sade. He was a man obsessed, like many great writers, and his obsessions are still present here: his hatred of all things pretentious, his loathing of a corrupt judicial system, his damning of hypocrisy and false piety. One of the great anarchists of all time, he was nevertheless far from mad (as many pretended) and these works of fiction shed another light on this most feverish of minds. But however heavy the subject, The Mystified Magistrate is infused with a light touch; it is revealing but never offensive.

About this edition

• Publisher: Import US
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1559705795
• ISBN 13: 9781559705790
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240