by
Anne Gédéon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel—one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself. Yet Sade's...