Word: sade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectuals have been sloshing through the sludge at the bottom of their own and other men's minds in search of some explanation. In this echoing and noisome place, time and again they have encountered the shadowy figure of the man known as the Marquis de Sade. Last week a Paris court debated a question: Was Sade an intrepid explorer and detached observer of the depths? Or was he there because he liked it? In a word, was Sade a pornographer whose works should be banned, or a serious contributor to the wisdom of mankind...
...question was just as puzzling to his contemporaries. Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte de Sade, was born in a Paris palace in 1740. His father was military ruler of four French provinces and lord of vast estates. His mother was of royal Bourbon blood. He was a youthful companion of the young Prince Louis-Joseph, fought as a cavalry officer in the Seven Years' War. At 23, he docilely married the daughter of a rich, petty aristocrat in a ceremony attended by King Louis XV and his Queen. Five months later he was arrested in a local bordello...
...Gide. The demon that possessed Jacques and his girl came from drinking deeply of the heady, dark brews of French intellectualism, from the Marquis de Sade to Jean Paul Sartre. Denise was the ardent disciple of them all, a girl so enamored of the intellectual life and so prone to bedding with students that she soon found herself the mother of a bastard child. Her lover Jacques had already fathered two bastards by the time they met, and his approach to women was always patterned on that of his intellectual idols. "In the manner of Gide," he would tell...
...coincidence in this novel-the chicken turns out to be Claude, a long-lost childhood sweetheart. Francois first knew Claude Herber and her brother Jean Jacques when they were children and lived in the country together, roaming the woods like a junior fan club for the Marquis de Sade. They played flogging games with horsewhips. Lashing Claude and another playmate, Denise, had been the best fun of all-"so sweet." Claude murmured, fondling her wound, "that afterwards one would like to be whipped again...
...depressing share of these were just penny-dreadfuls at a quarter, there was also plenty of good reading. In this volatile market, The Confessions of Saint Augustine and The Universe and Dr. Einstein became bestsellers -alongside Mickey Spillane (1952 sales: 6,074,135), a kind of poolroom Marquis de Sade. It was plain to the worried hardcover men that the two-bit upstarts had tapped a new market of readers. The paperbacks were even publishing originals and luring away writers with promises of better royalties and wider readership. But the paperbacks were headed for trouble: in Washington, a congressional committee...