The 120 Days of Sodom is Sade's masterpiece. A still unsurpassed catalogue of sexual abberrations and the first systematic exploration of the psychopathology of sex, it was written during Sade's imprisonment and then lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. Later rediscovered , the manuscript remained unpublished until 1936 and is now introduced by Simone de Beauvoir's...(展开全部)

薩德侯爵（Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814） 出身法國普羅旺斯的貴族世家，其母有波旁王朝的皇室血統。性虐待一詞（Sadism）的詞源便出自薩德的名字。薩德從三十八歲起到七十四歲病死獄中為止，前後因行為不檢與作品傷風敗俗，被監禁將近二十八個寒暑。最後死於夏宏東精神病患收容所。 薩德生平寫作無數，包括十幾部長篇小說與二十齣戲劇，甚至還有遊記。但是他的作品足足有一百多年是在地下流通，成為禁書。著名的《索多瑪一百二十天》是他一七八五年被關在巴士底監獄時，花三十三天時間謄寫完成，後遺失於法國大革命戰火中，百年後才出土。薩德活著的時代，他被認為是不足道的二流情色小說家。但是到了二十世紀，不但巴代耶（Bataille）讚譽他為「偉大的哥德式作家」，法國詩人阿波利奈爾、超寫實主義詩人德斯諾斯、布荷東、艾呂雅等都盛讚他為超寫實主義大師，特別是性意識...(展开全部)

The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud-of the psychology of sex, it is...(展开全部)

The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud-of the psychology of sex, it is...(展开全部)

From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone. Moving from a small...(展开全部)

The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same ...(展开全部)

The End of Days, a brilliant novel of contingency and fate, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Ha...(展开全部)

"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-"Corriere della Sera" "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-"El Mundo" "Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of ...(展开全部)

"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-"Corriere della Sera" "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-"El Mundo" "Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of ...(展开全部)

The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same ...(展开全部)