365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence
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365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence mentions Pamela by Samuel Richardson, Dominion by Tom Holland, Justine by Marquis de Sade, and Philosophy in the Boudoir by Marquis de Sade with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
So what's interesting about this is that this is at a point when virtue, the idea of virtue, has become so central to the French Revolutionary Projec…
I think that he sees the Marquis de Sade as a key figure in the evolution of this kind of counter-tradition.
most famously, Justine, The Sufferings of Virtue, which we'll come to a bit later.
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“Justine is a parody of a novel by the English writer Samuel Richardson, Pamela, which tells the story of a virtuous girl whose virtue ends up being rewarded.”
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“The book is mentioned in relation to the tradition of Christianity and the evolution of a counter-tradition involving figures like the Marquis de Sade.”
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“The most notorious novel is Justine, a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, where virtue leads to suffering and vice leads to success.”
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“Sade wrote a novel called Philosophy in the Boudoir, which sums up what Sade is all about.”
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“He writes voluminously in prison and particularly in the Bastille. And that is where he writes 120 Days of Sodom, which he writes in this kind of great fever of creativity.”
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“Gibbon famously had suggested in the decline and fall of the Roman Empire that the adoption of Christianity was one of his causes.”
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Salo
“The most famous cinematic adaptation of 120 Days of Sodom is by Pasolini, the great Italian director. It's the last film he made called Salo, which was the plot of 120 Days of Sodom.”