The 120 Days of Sodom

ISBN-13: 9780141394343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 464 str.

Marquis de Sade

Opis

A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking, and influential novel

This distressing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter clashed over him. This new translation brings Sade's provocative novel into Penguin Classics for the first time, and will reignite the debate around this most controversial of writers.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Recenzje

Without in any way giving in to hyperbole, I would say that this translation is a 21st century monument, changing not only the way in which we view the French 18th century, but providing a guide to the present and future Andrew Hussey, Scott Moncrieff Prize judge

O autorze

The Marquis de Sade (Author)
The Marquis de Sade was born in Paris in 1740. He was imprisoned several times for his scandalous behaviour, and wrote The 120 Days of Sodom, his most notorious work, while in prison in the Bastille. He managed to ingratiate himself with the new regime after the French Revolution, but by 1796 was a ruined man. He died in an insane asylum in 1814.

Will McMorran (Translator)
Will McMorran is a Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London.

Thomas Wynn (Translator)
Thomas Wynn is Reader and Director of Research in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University.