Pardon My French: The Marquis de Sade
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Death of a Minor French Aristocrat
The 120 days of sodom clocked in at a mine blowing 250 thousand words. The novel was also an exercise in a kind of meta satism. It's painful to read. And sod knows that he's getting off by inflicting mental distress on us, the readers. He was a man in deep psychological pain who turned that pain back on his audience.
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