Marquis de Sade
Notorious French aristocrat
Marquis de Sade was an eighteenth-century French aristocrat and writer whose novels depicted extreme sexual cruelty and violence.
His name gave rise to *sadism*—deriving pleasure from inflicting pain.
His works, long banned, are now studied as transgressive literature exploring power, freedom, and human nature: a library of banned books including the Marquis de Sade.
Writer of prose narratives
- dramatistWriter of stage works
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- pamphleteerWriter of political tracts
- JustineFemale given name
Juliette · epistolary · French literature · Quills · biography · memoir · prose · narrative
Prioritizing goods over spirit
- atheismRejection of deities
- natureInherent quality or disposition
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
anti-clericalism · power · desire · human nature · rationalism · radical thought · Voltaire · philosophe
Extreme public disgrace
- notorietyFame from misdeeds
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- blasphemyIrreverence toward the sacred
- perversionCorruption or deviant distortion
decadence · shock · reprobate · anathema · censorship · banned · imprisonment · asylum
Extreme indulgence in vices
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- rakeTined yard implement
- profligateRecklessly extravagant or dissolute
- dissoluteIndulgent and immoral
roué · voluptuary · sensualist · pleasure-seeker · carnal · seduction · orgies · licentiousness
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- dramatistWriter of stage works
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- pamphleteerWriter of political tracts
Justine · Juliette · epistolary · French literature · Quills · biography · memoir · prose · narrative · publishing
materialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
- atheismRejection of deities
- natureInherent quality or disposition
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
Enlightenment · anti-clericalism · power · desire · human nature · rationalism · radical thought · Voltaire · philosophe · treatise
infamy
Extreme public disgrace
perversion · decadence · shock · reprobate · anathema · censorship · banned · imprisonment · asylum · obscenity
debauchery
Extreme indulgence in vices
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- rakeTined yard implement
- profligateRecklessly extravagant or dissolute
dissolute · roué · voluptuary · sensualist · pleasure-seeker · carnal · seduction · orgies · licentiousness · indulgence
- French WritersVictor Hugo, Hugo, Jules Verne, Verne, Voltaire
- Prison WritersOscar Wilde, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes
- Provocative WritersCharles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence
- Noble WritersLord Byron, Horace Walpole, Bertrand Russell
- Erotic AuthorsE.L. James, Anais Nin, Zane, Henry Miller
- Erotic WritersAnais Nin, Henry Miller
Marquis de SadeImmanuel Kant
moralist · Thomas Bowdler · puritan · Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Saint Augustine
Marquis de SadeMahatma Gandhi
Mother Teresa · Albert Schweitzer · humanitarian · pacifist · compassionate
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