![]() ![]() It's like playing chicken with a bulldozer: if you run away, you're a coward, but if you don't, you're a fool a dead fool at that.ġ20 Days of Sodom was Sade's masterwork. If you can't read Sade to the end, you lose and somehow even if you do, you still lose. "The opposite of his readers," wrote Octavio Paz, "Sade has an iron will." Meaning, Sade is not only something you read, it's something you withstand and endure, a battle of wills with the reader squaring off against the divine Marquis. To read the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) is disorienting, intimidating, exciting, frightening and ultimately exhilirating. ![]() Anne Wiazemsky reading the Marquis de Sade's Les Infortunés de la Vertu in Jean-Luc Godard's film La Chinoise ![]()
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