An Erotic Beyond: Sade
by Paz, Octavio
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0151003521
- ISBN 13
- 9780151003525
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About This Item
When, as a young man in postwar Paris, Octavio Paz first encountered the writings of the Marquis de Sade, his reaction was one of "astonishment and horror, curiosity and disgust, admiration and recognition." In an early poem and two subsequent essays written over a span of five decades, Paz pierces through the narrow image of Sade as pornographer and examines his work in the context of the paradox of human freedom and civilized man. He insists that Sade is worth reading, that the danger lies not in his books but in the passions of his readers.
Synopsis
Through an early poem-written just after he became acquainted with the work of the Marquis de Sade-and two later essays, Nobel Prize laureate Paz “admirably questions and explores the meaning of a figure who will not leave us alone” (Kirkus Reviews). Written with Paz’s usual authority blended with irreverence, this book is as provocative as its subject. Translated by Eliot Weinberger.
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- Eureka Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 301368
- Title
- An Erotic Beyond: Sade
- Author
- Paz, Octavio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151003521
- ISBN 13
- 9780151003525
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
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