The Crimes of Love - Heroic and Tragic Tales, Preceded By an Essay on Novels

'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...'Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories; tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love.Psychologically astute, and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at his best. A skilled and artful storyteller, he is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life, for which we have yet to find the answers. This new selection includes 'An Essay on Novels', Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Product details

• Authors: David Coward, Marquis de Sade
• Assisted by: David (Professor of Modern French Literature Coward (Translation), Coward David (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.06.2008
• EAN: 9780199539987
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953998-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form