SADE: A Sudden Abyss.
San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 1990. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Item #101110
xvii + 220pp. An authoritative survey of Sade’s work as a whole, Le Brun frees it from such critics as Bataille, Blanchot, Klossowski, and Barthes (who see Sade’s language as a metaphor for history, society, or writing itself). She asks, Where is Sade himself in these texts? What exactly does Sade tell us? What is obscured when Sade’s writing is placed in a “universe of discourse” rather than understood as a manifestation of a life spent in eleven prisons over twenty-seven years.
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