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Works by the Marquis de Sade Published by Grove Press

Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

Juliette

CJhe Ut[arquis

decSade Justine,

Philosophy in the Bedroom, and other writings

compiled and translated by Richarri Seaver & Austryn Wainhouse

with introductions by Jean Paulhan of l'Acadimie Francoise

& Maurice Blanchot

� Grove Press New York

Copyright © 1965 by Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814. [Selections. English. 1990] The complete Justine, Philosophy in the bedroom, and other

writings / the Marquis de Sade : compiled and translated by Richard Seaver & Austryn Wainhouse, with an introduction by Jean Paulhan & Maurice Blanchot.

p. cm. Translated from the French. ISBN 0-8021-3218-9 I. Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814-Translations, English.

2. Erotic literature, French-Translations into English. 3. Erotic literature, English--Translations from French. I. Seaver, Richard. II. Wainhouse, Austryn. III. Title. PQ2063.S3A275 1990 843'.6-nc20 90-3153

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Ackn(JlO)ledgments The essay by Jean Paulhan, "The Marquis de Sade and His Accom­ plice," was originally published as a preface to the second edition of Les Infortunes de la Vertu published in 1946 by Les Editions du Point du Jour, copyright 1946 by Jean Paulhan. The essay was later reprinted, under the title "La Douteuse Justine ou Ies R£wnches de la Vertu," as an introduction to the 1959 edition of Les Infortunes de la Vertu published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert. It is here reprinted by permission of the author. The essay "Sade" by Maurice Blanchot forms part of that author's volume entitled Lautmamont et Sade, copyright 1949 by Les Editions de Minuit, and is here reprinted by permission of the publisher. The editors wish to thank Grove Press, Inc. for permission to include certain information in the Chronology in the form of both entries and notes, taken from TIte Marquis de Sade, a Difinitive Biograplry, by Gilbert Lely, copyright © 1961 by Elek Books Limited. This work is a one-volume abridgment of the two-volume La Vie du Marquis de Sade by the same author, to which the editors have referred in their Foreword, wherein further acknowledgments have also been made. Finally, the editors wish especially to thank Miss Marilynn Meeker for the meticulous job of editing, and for the number and diversity of her suggestions.

Contents

Foreword

Publisher's Preface

Part One Critical & Biographical

The Marquis de Sade and His Accomp lice

Xl

XVll

by Jean Paulhan, of l'Academie Fran�aise 3 Sade by Maurice Blanchot 37

Chronology 73 Seven Letters (1763-1790) 121

Note Concerning My Detention (1803) 151 Last Will and Testament (1806) 155

Part Two Two Philosophical Dialogues

Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man (1782) 161 Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795) 177

Part T hre e Two Moral Tales

Eugenie de Franval (1788) 371 Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised (1791) 447

Bibliography 745

My manner 0/ thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor /001 indeed is he who adopts a manner 0/ thinking lor others! My manner 0/

thinking stems straight from my considered reflections;

it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, 1'd not do so.

This manner 0/ thinking you find fault with is my sole

consolation in life; it alleviates all my sufferings in

prison, it composes all my pleasures in the world out­

side, it is dearer to me than life itself. Not my manner

0/ thinking but the manner of thinking of others has

been the source 0/ my unhappiness. The reasoning man

who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily be­

comes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much,

and laugh at the inevitable. A traveler journeys along a fine road. It has been strewn with traps. He falls into one. Do you say it is the traveler's fault, or that of the scoundrel who lays the traps? If then, as you tell me, they