Маркиз де Сад

Almost two hundred years have passed since the death of the French writer, philosopher and politician Marquis de Sade, but passions continue to rage around his name. The author of infamous erotic novels, a prisoner who spent more than a quarter of a century in the dungeons of all the regimes that have changed in his lifetime, the chairman of the revolutionary tribunal, who did not sign a single death sentence, was sentenced to death for attempted poisoning and to the guillotine for modernism, a brilliant aristocrat and a beggar, barely who did not die in a hospital for the poor - all these are different incarnations of a person called in bohemian circles the Divine Marquis. In our time, the stigma of "forbiddenness" has been washed away from de Sade's novels, serious studies are being studied of the writer's life and work. In the biography of the Marquis de Sade offered to readers, the most complete of those currently published in Russian, the author makes an attempt to understand the controversial personality of the Marquis, to connect the writer's work with the vicissitudes of fate.