The Divine Marquis and the Surrealists
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The Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), best known for his violent, erotic novels, such as 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, was also one of the key inspirational figures identified by André Breton in his Surrealist Manifestos. De Sade’s importance to the Surrealists and their close affiliates is reflected in the sheer volume of art and writing dedicated to, or inspired by, his life, philosophy, and writings. Sade documents this body of Surrealist work, including many key texts and bizarre and erotic images never before assembled in one volume.
Included in Sade are more than fifty rarely seen transgressive illustrations by some of the most famous names associated with Surrealism, including Dalí, Hans Bellmer, Magritte, André Masson, and Man Ray. The book also features analytical texts by writers of the period such as Bataille, Breton, Bunuel, Eluard, and Klossowski. Also included is the first-ever English translation of “The Divine Marquis” by Guillaume Apollinaire, which was the first modernist appraisal of Sade and remains one of the best concise biographies of its subject, and “Sade and the Roman Noir” by scholar Maurice Heine, in which Heine posits Sade as inventor of the gothic novel. Putting the works in context is an extensive history by editor Candice Black that details the relationship between the Surrealists and Sade.
Part One—Sade and Surrealism: An Illustrated History
Part Two—Surrealists on Sade
The Divine Marquis (1909)
Guillaume Apollinaire
The Use of D. A. F. De Sade (1930)
Georges Bataille
The Marquis de Sade and The Gothic Novel (1933)
Maurice Heine
A Destructive Philosophy (1965)
Pierre Klossowski
Notes on the Sadistic Imagination (1947)
Andre Masson
D. A. F. de Sade: A Revolutionary Intelligence (1927)
Paul Eluard
List of Selected Works
Index
Art: Art--General Studies
Literature and Literary Criticism: Romance Languages
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Title page of 1968 translation by Austryn Wainhouse | |
Author | The Marquis de Sade |
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Original title | L'Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du vice |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Genre | Libertine, philosophical novel |
1797 | |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Preceded by | La Nouvelle Justine |
Followed by | The Crimes of Love (1800) |
Juliette is a novel written by the Marquis de Sade and published 1797–1801, accompanying Sade's 1797 version of his novel Justine. While Justine, Juliette's sister, was a virtuous woman who consequently encountered nothing but despair and abuse, Juliette is an amoralnymphomaniac murderer who is successful and happy. The full title of the novel in the original French is L'Histoire de Juliette ou les Prospérités du vice, and the English title is 'Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded' (versus 'Justine, or Good Conduct Well-Chastised', about Juliette's virtuous sister). As many other of his works, Juliette follows a pattern of violently pornographic scenes followed by long treatises on a broad range of philosophical topics, including theology, morality, aesthetics, naturalism and also Sade's dark, fatalistic view of world metaphysics.
Plot summary[edit]
Juliette is raised in a convent. However, at age thirteen she is seduced by a woman who immediately explains that morality, religion and other such concepts are meaningless. There are plenty of similar philosophical musings during the book, all attacking the ideas of God, morals, remorse, love, etc., the overall conclusion being that the only aim in life is 'to enjoy oneself at no matter whose expense.' Juliette takes this to the extreme and manages to murder her way through numerous people, including various family members and friends.
As in Justine, there are several explicit references connecting an abundance of food to physical love and sexual pleasure. After an orgy, at the beginning of the book, Delbene says 'Good plentiful food makes one efficient for physical love' and later chapters mention alcohol and 'splendid wine and opulent food'.
During Juliette's life from age 13 to about 30, the wanton anti-heroine engages in virtually every form of depravity and encounters a series of like-minded libertines. She meets the ferocious Clairwil: whose main passion is the murder of boys and young men, as revenge for the general brutality of men toward women. She meets Saint Fond: a 50-year-old multi-millionaire who murders his father, commits incest with his daughter, tortures young girls to death on a daily basis, and even plots an ambitious scheme to provoke a famine that will wipe out half the population of France. She also becomes acquainted with Minski: a nomadic ogre-like Muscovite who delights in raping and torturing young boys and girls to death, and then eating them.
Real people in Juliette[edit]
A long audience with Pope Pius VI is one of the more extensive scenes in Juliette. The heroine repeatedly addresses the Pope by his legal name 'Braschi.' She also flaunts her learning with a verbal, yet highly detailed, catalogue of alleged immoralities committed by his papal predecessors. Their conversation ends (like nearly every scene in the narrative) with an orgy, in which Pope Pius is portrayed as a secret libertine.
Soon after this, the male character Brisatesta narrates two scandalous encounters. The first is with 'Princess Sophia, niece of the King of Prussia,' who has just married 'the Stadtholder' at the Hague. This is a presumed reference to Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange, who married the last Dutch Stadtholder, William V of Orange in 1767, and was still alive when Juliette was published thirty years later. The second encounter is with Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia.
Publication and reception[edit]
Both Justine and Juliette were published anonymously. Napoleon ordered the arrest of the author, and as a result de Sade was incarcerated without trial for the last thirteen years of his life.
The essay (Excursus II) 'Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality' in Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) analyzes Juliette as the embodiment of the philosophy of enlightenment. They write: 'she demonizes Catholicism as the most-up-to-date mythology -- and along with it, civilization as a whole. Her comportment is enlightened and efficient as she goes about her work of sacrilege … She favours system and consequence.'[1][2]
Marquis De Sade Excerpts
See also[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- Juliette. Translated by Wainhouse, Austryn. 1968. OCLC976556170.
References[edit]
- ^Theodor W. Adorno & Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Translated by John Cumming. London/New York: Verso, 1999.
- ^G.T. Roche. Sade, Enlightenment, Holocaust.
External links[edit]
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- Full text of Juliette, in French
- Online exhibition on illustrations of Juliette, by the World Museum on Erotic Art
- (in French)La nouvelle Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu, suivie de l'Histoire de Juliette, sa soeur, vol. 5, vol. 6, vol. 7, vol. 8, vol. 9, vol. 10, en Hollande, 1797.