From a Nobel Prize-winning essayist and poet comes this meditation on one of literature's most controversial figures--the man who gave his name to "sadism". Exuberantly life-affirming, "An Erotic Beyond: Sade" is philosophy of the first order, with an admixture of authority and irreverence that will surely provoke conversation and debate.
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From a Nobel Prize-winning essayist and poet comes this meditation on one of literature's most controversial figures--the man who gave his name to "sadism". Exuberantly life-affirming, "An Erotic Beyond: Sade" is philosophy of the first order, with an admixture of authority and irreverence that will surely provoke conversation and debate.
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A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. When, as a young man in postwar Paris, Octavio Paz first encountered the writings of the Marquis de Sade, his reaction was one of "astonishment and horror, curiosity and disgust, admiration and recognition." In an early poem and two subsequent essays written over a span of five decades, Paz pierces through the narrow image of Sade as pornographer and examines his work in the context of the paradox of human freedom and civilized man. He insists that Sade is worth reading, that the danger lies not in his books but in the passions of his readers.
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Fine. First American edition. Translated by Eliot Weinberger. 12mo. 84pp. Trifle worn else fine in fine dust jacket. Advance copy with the sheet laid in.
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