120 Days of Sodom - Sade

Marquês de Sade

May 2024 · Lebooks Editora

About this ebook

In addition to being shocking and controversial, Marques de Sade's novel "The 120 Days of Sodom" was the first attempt by a writer to portray, in an absolutely raw way, many of the philias that can emerge from a human being. It tells the story of four rich libertine men who decide to experience ultimate sexual gratification in orgies. To do this, they lock themselves up for four months in an inaccessible castle with a harem of forty-six victims, most of them teenagers of both sexes, and recruit four pimps to tell the story of their lives and adventures. The women's narrative becomes inspiration for sexual abuse and torture of the victims, which gradually escalates in intensity and ends in a surprising way. Right at the beginning of "The 120 Days of Sodom" the author himself warns: "I advise the excessively modest reader to immediately put my book aside, so as not to be scandalized, as it is already evident that there is not much chaste in our plan, and we dare to guarantee that there will be even less of it in the execution... And now, dear reader, prepare your heart and your mind for the most impure narrative ever written since our world began, a book without parallels among the ancients, or among us, moderns..."

About the author

Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) was a French libertine writer, playwright, and philosopher. His work was characterized by pornography and moral contempt. The name Sade gave rise to the term sadism, which refers to the scenes of cruelty and torture described in his books. The full name of Marquis de Sade was Donatien Alphonse François de Sade. He was born in the palace of La Coste, in Paris, France, on June 2, 1740. The book "The 120 Days of Sodom" is the author's most important work, and his name has come to qualify all kinds of perversion and cruelty.