Understanding Sade

<p class=ql-align-justify>A feast of the body and above all a feast of words Sade's work continues to reach out to us through the fusions it creates. Philosophy? Pornography? Farce? Like Madame de Saint-Ange in her boudoir Sade could exclaim: I'm an amphibious animal. I love everything. I enjoy everything. I want to bring all genres together.</p><p> In keeping with Sade's concern for totality this book follows the biographical literary and philosophical journey of a man imprisoned under all regimes a victim of all despotisms and who through his laughter and his pen knew how to frighten the supporters of virtuous good causes who recognize themselves by their desire to make a clean sweep of all the complexity and madness of the world. Think you know Sade? Think again!</p>