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Justine by Marquise de Sade (1787)


"May your crimes make you as happy as your cruelties have made me suffer"




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'I have become whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue.' Orphaned and penniless at the age of twelve, the beautiful and devout Justine embarks upon her remarkable odyssey. Her steadfast faith and naive trust in trust in everyone she meets destine her from the outset for sexual exploitation and martyrdom. The unending catalogue of disasters that befall her, during which she is subject to any number of perverse practices, illustrate Sade's belief in the primacy of Nature over civilization. Virtue is no match for vice, and as criminality and violence triumph, Justine is doomed to suffer. Sade's writings have become a byword for transgression and obscenity, and the logical amorality of his philosophy still has the power to shock. By overturning social, religious, and political norms he puts under scrutiny conventional ideas of justice, power, life, and death. Justine is a ferocious physical and intellectual assault on absolute notions of good and evil, and as such, one of the earliest literary manifestos for atheism.


"Life is just an uninterrupted series of pains and pleasures" FACTS

- Justine, a novella written in 1787 during a 2 weeks in Bastille jail

- Extended and more graphic version later released as Justine ou Les Malheurs de la vertu in 1791, first book published by Sade

- Various film versions such as Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) and Marquis de Sade's Justined (1977) , Vice and Virtue,


Marquis de Sade, Justine, ou les Malheurs de la Vertu. Troisième Édition.En Hollande [but Paris]:1800. sold at Christies

Marquis de Sade – 100 Erotic Illustrations

Marquis de Sade – 100 Erotic Illustrations

Marquis de Sade – 100 Erotic Illustrations
Marquis de Sade – 100 Erotic Illustrations


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