French Fiction, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction, European Peoples & Cultures - Fiction & Literature, Erotica
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Overview
An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candy—all pale beside Juliette.”—Library Journal
Synopsis
“An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candy—all pale beside Juliette.”—Library Journal
NY Times Book Review
The Marquis is a missionary. He has written a new religion. Juliette is one of the holy books.
Editorials
Playboy
It is not necessary to take the Marquis seriously as a philosopher of total freedom, as some do, in order to relish the imagination and talent that went into gilding the nuggets of naughtiness contained here.Newsweek
Sade was one of themost radical minds of Western history, one that touched, with an astonishing fusion of madness and cold rationality, on some of the most central aspects of psychic life....He remains a great, horrifying, but also vastly illuminating figure.NY Times Book Review
The Marquis is a missionary. He has written a new religion. Juliette is one of the holy books.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1994
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages
1216
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780802130853