The Punishment Begins
I love Camus' picture of Sade in The Rebel, how it's like unleashing hell on earth. It's a supremely hateful kind of literature, extremely distasteful if you have any sense of decency.
To match or comment upon the state of the world, it could be interesting to make regular visits to that depraved and godless landscape of sadistic escapades and old school atheism.
In A Very Short Introduction to Sade there's 2 old school atheists cited that meant a lot for Sade, they were Baron d'holbach's System of Nature and La Mettrie's Man a Machine, so they will be a part of this too.
My de Sade library includes the Penguin edition of 120 Days, Grove Press editions of that, plus Justine, Juliette, all of these have great essays and stuff from French Intellectuals from the 60's and so forth, like the guys Pasolini cites at the beginning of his last film.Oxford editions of The Misfortune of Virtue and The Crimes of Love, these are a bit more mild as I understand, his Prison Letters, what a crybaby he was, angry at the world and everyone, well I guess i'd be so too if I was locked up in prison, but he may have had a cushiony prison term, and he loved Rousseau, well there was a part where he was pleading for Rousseau books, when I first read that I thought he might have been having a joke. Plus Maurice Blanchot's Lautreamont and Sade, and Angela Carter's Sadeian Women. Oh and Far Right nutcase Kerry Bolton's The Perversion of Normality, this is a guy who wrote a positive book about Josef Stalin.
HELL and DAMNATION, literature that makes the world a worse place, in the context of a world that in some ways is even worse, it's getting ugly out there, it's not getting any better, and alongside my ancient readings, I welcome this version of hell for a tangy literary blend overall.
To match or comment upon the state of the world, it could be interesting to make regular visits to that depraved and godless landscape of sadistic escapades and old school atheism.
In A Very Short Introduction to Sade there's 2 old school atheists cited that meant a lot for Sade, they were Baron d'holbach's System of Nature and La Mettrie's Man a Machine, so they will be a part of this too.
My de Sade library includes the Penguin edition of 120 Days, Grove Press editions of that, plus Justine, Juliette, all of these have great essays and stuff from French Intellectuals from the 60's and so forth, like the guys Pasolini cites at the beginning of his last film.Oxford editions of The Misfortune of Virtue and The Crimes of Love, these are a bit more mild as I understand, his Prison Letters, what a crybaby he was, angry at the world and everyone, well I guess i'd be so too if I was locked up in prison, but he may have had a cushiony prison term, and he loved Rousseau, well there was a part where he was pleading for Rousseau books, when I first read that I thought he might have been having a joke. Plus Maurice Blanchot's Lautreamont and Sade, and Angela Carter's Sadeian Women. Oh and Far Right nutcase Kerry Bolton's The Perversion of Normality, this is a guy who wrote a positive book about Josef Stalin.
HELL and DAMNATION, literature that makes the world a worse place, in the context of a world that in some ways is even worse, it's getting ugly out there, it's not getting any better, and alongside my ancient readings, I welcome this version of hell for a tangy literary blend overall.
46-50, M
