Reviews for The Marquis de Sade, The crimes of love

The average rating for The Marquis de Sade, The crimes of love based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-08 00:00:00 THIERRY PAHUD It's officially, I am a great fan of Marquis de Sade and I want to read everything he has ever written. At first I was quite surprised that he wasn't as controvertional as I was expecting, but as soon as I got more in the book, there we go… consented incest between father and daughter; revengeful women that hate their daughters because they want to fuck their lovers; puritan women that once had children before marriage (…) and, the cherry on top of the cake was when at the end of Crimes of Love we have Malicious tales and that's when Marquis de Sade starts to show his colors. Criticizing the church and insinuating that the priests fuck the little girls on their convents, women that love to be double penetrated, etc etc etc. Dear lord ahahahah (how appropriate to say this here…) it was insane, lecherous, immoral, libertine!!! Gotta love that. I imagine how the nobles at that time shove this down their throats. Even though Sade tried to take out the responsibility for writing this in the prelude, he didn't succeed and got put in a mental institution for life because of this. He was a mind ahead of his time; even the way he writes it's kind of contemporary and I cannot wait until I read Justine or 120 days of Sodom. I'm in love.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-01-23 00:00:00 Jan Liegeois I have read these stories, written by de Sade while incarcerated in Charenton, over and over again. They are the only of his works that I truly treasure. He wrote them late in a debauched life and they are infused with a melancholy moralism (think Voltaire in a terrible mood), where few people have pure motives (and virtually everyone meets a bad end), effusive, romantic prose can turn surreal and footnotes can meditate on dreams in a way that presages and far outstrips the insights of Freud. I find this collection of stories unlike anything else de Sade wrote: politically astute (especially with regard to class and gender politics), sometimes alarmingly psychologically insightful and worth revisiting again and again. They have a gripping narrative pull that seems far more related to crime-fiction than the navel-gazing pornographic novels of the early de Sade.