![]() ![]() Mahon’s compass, of course, also involves commentary on how Sade’s works play for us today, when, for political opponents, torture has become commonplace, genocide against defined peoples sustains, and authoritarian control over permitted speech expands. At stake with Sade, as our author Alyce Mahon clarifies, are several issues that continue to compel, confound, and disturb us: the differences between imagined and real criminality, the character of libertinage in representation, the gaining power of women to command and lead, and the freedom to transgress artistic norms. ![]() In our time, at least as far as the previous century is concerned, Sade re-emerges through the literary and artistic avant-garde, the subject of the present book. Equally so is Sade’s use of fiction as an arena by which to subvert the personal, political, cultural, religious, and social mores of his time. In matters of libertinage, Sade’s fiction is also without peer. ![]() There is perhaps no other author who has tested our capacity, as readers, to imagine the unimaginable more. The Marquis de Sade and the works that bear his name are ever sources for reflection and commentary. ![]()
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