Being born in a good birth does not always ensure accommodation to the norms and the fruitfulness of education in a personality integrated in forms, uses and customs ... There is no better example than that of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade or simply the Marquis de Sade, from whose noble title the term "sadism" ended up emerging to group different types of sexual practices initially considered to be typical of depravity and currently assumed as a tendency of the most individual sphere, a particular sexual affiliation in which joy and pain share the limelight.
But of course, the context of the 18th century, with a strict morality adopted from a religious perspective and a society governed by good manners and appearances as moral pillars, is not the same as the context of our days.
That today the saga of EL James about the famous Gray and his sadomasochistic shadows is even taken to the cinema, for a greater exhibition of certain types of sexual practices, it seems normal to us. Or what authors of the twentieth century like Bukowski or the XNUMXst century as Peter John Gutierrez expressed in dirty realism with minute sexual details of all kinds, is considered natural in an open society.
But for eroticism to come to the world of literature to stay, the role of the Marquis de Sade is paramount. It was no longer just a matter of this irreverent aristocrat recounting more or less explicit sexual encounters. The important thing is that the Marquis de Sade wanted to write to violate consciences, while putting his own sexual affiliations black on white, whatever the cost.
In a life given over to controversy, publicly repudiated and taken to jail and near execution for matters as serious in his day as sodomy and the use of substances for sexual practices, Sade ended up representing the devil himself.
With psychiatric admissions included and more or less deliberate destruction or loss of his works, the Marquis de Sade has managed to survive to this day with a dark stain of transgression and perversion that, however, recounts encounters today that are more accepted in many cases as inherent to individual sexual freedom.
Top 3 recommended books of the Marquis de Sade
120 days of Sodom
It is not known if this book is complete, since its writing in seclusion at Vincennes castle makes us suspect that not everything written could make up the volume.
However, what was rescued and edited finally composes a whole of great sexual perversions, a kind of relief from the rebellious author with an unbreakable will. But beyond the point of sexual transgression, the work also opens up to an interpretation of harsh social criticism, especially regarding the spheres of power, divided in the work into four wealthy characters who find the perfect place in which to free themselves. of moral ties.
The training and education of the author serves on this occasion to offer parallels with the ancestral cultures of our world, offering the outstanding value that the role of the prostitutes had in the history of the West.
The crimes of love
Once society openly repudiated the Marquis de Sade, and having spent time in psychiatric hospitals and prisons, a work like this in which short novels were compiled and which opened to the new 19th century abounds in new forms of love although it comes to light. light with some "precautions" on the part of its editor.
Currently, you can find unabridged, uncensored editions that address more twisted aspects of sex such as incest and many other forms of love that attack morality and that also revel in the gothic darkness of their settings and characters.
The most wicked love can end up reaching the darkest part of the soul, where other instincts move like that of the assassin in the making ...
Philosophy on the dressing table
That sex was a motor of the world was something the Marquis de Sade knew with complete certainty. The question is how the human being handles that pleasure that seeks the spasms of "la petit morte", of orgasm and its previous confluences as the essence of his life.
The immoral preceptors of this novel channel desire into something more complex; desire can find a wonderful balance in the pain inflicted or received, in punishment or in the madness of the contained orgasm.
They are masters in that sample of life and while the preceptors lead towards the glory of the flesh, its pleasures and punishments, the philosopher expands at ease about the control of morality, about deprivation and hypocrisy ...
A book that miraculously survived its days because in it appeared what were considered the greatest deviations in the history of literature.
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