Marquis de Sade bibliography

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, best known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and author of philosophical and sadomasochistic novels exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia. His works evidence a philosophical mind advocating a materialist philosophy in which Nature dictates absolute freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure as its foremost principle. Besides novels, he wrote philosophical tracts, novellas, short tales, and a number of plays (many of which no longer extant). Publication, dissemination, and translation of his works have long been hindered by censorship: not until 1983 were his works allowed unfettered distribution in the UK, for instance.[1]

Prose fiction

Illustration of a Dutch printing of the book Juliette by the Marquis de Sade, c. 1800
First page from Justine

Other short stories

Essays

Plays

Political pamphlets

Letters and personal notes posthumously published

Uncertain/misattributions

References

  1. Sade, Marquis de (1992). David Coward, ed. The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales. New York: Oxford UP. p. xliv. ISBN 9780192836953.
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