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MARQUIS DE SADE, SELECTED LETTERS edited by Gilbert Lely. 188 pages. October House...
Perhaps the warders were right about Mister Six. No one, neither the King of France nor the Republican revolutionaries nor Napoleon himself, knew what to do with the Marquis de Sade except lock him up. And no one has quite known what to make of him since...
Dyspeptic Glutton. He was in jail because he liked to whip girls. Sometimes even a prostitute's pay is not enough for this sort of thing-De Sade's flagellating apparatus could be pretty damaging-and there were complaints about this, and also about sodomy, which carried the death penalty. His rank saved him from the gallows but not from himself. His trouble seems to have been that he was a stupendous sexual glutton and at the same time a sexual dyspeptic; too much was not enough. His pleasure was pain, and pain was his pleasure. Jail confined...
Somewhere Over the Rimbaud. This new collection was discovered in 1948 by Gilbert Lely, a French scholar, at the chateau of the Marquis Xavier de Sade, a direct descendant. It would be impolite to call Lely a sadist, but he certainly is a Sadean, and a doting one at that. Lely hopes that the letters will help readers to "enjoy De Sade's dark erotic paradise without guilt." Freud and Havelock Ellis ("the supreme triumph of human idealism") are cited. Fair enough from these specialists, but Lely insists that one letter can be compared only to "the music...
Jarry. Finally, De Sade can now be considered "an admissible genius like Shakespeare, Pascal or Nietzsche...