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Biography of Sade, Comte deName: Sade, Comte deBirth Date: June 2, 1740 Death Date: December 8, 1814 Place of Birth: Paris, France Nationality: French Gender: Male Occupations: writer Sade, Comte de The French writer of psychological and philosophical works Donatien Alphonse François, Comte de Sade (1740-1814), was also a libertine, debaucher, pornographer, and sadist--a term derived from his name.The Marquis de Sade has been traditionally viewed as the greatest incarnation of evil that ever lived. Recently, however, new interpretations of his life and writings have begun to appear. It is now generally agreed that despite his reputation, his works, which were ignored for over a century, must be considered as of the first rank. Sade has been termed the "most absolute writer who has ever lived."Born on June 2, 1740, to Marie Elénore de Maille de Carman, lady-in-waiting to and relative of the Princess de Condé, and Jean Baptiste Joseph François, Comte de Sade, who traced his ancestry to the chaste Laura of Petrarch's poems, the Marquis de Sade may be the most typical …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…arrogates to himself the creative and destructive capacities of nature in an extreme form, becoming solitary, alone, unique in the conscious awareness that he is the creative force and all others are but the material through which his energy is expressed. Further Reading Many of Sade's works are available in English. Biographies include Neil Schaeffer, Marquis de Sade: A Life (1999), Geoffrey Gorer, The Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade (1934; rev. ed. 1953), and Gilbert Lély, The Marquis de Sade (trans. 1962). Recommended for literary background is Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony (trans. 1933; 2d ed. 1956), and Laurence L Bonge, Sade: A Biographical Essay (1998).Gorer, Geoffrey, The life and ideas of the Marquis de Sade, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978, 1963. Hayman, Ronald, De Sade: a critical biography, New York: Crowell, 1978. Lever, Maurice, Sade: a biography, San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994.Thomas, Donald, The Marquis de Sade, Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1992. |