Justine - Or the Misfortunes of Virtue

Marquês de Sade

Corgi Books

1787

287 páginas

9h 34m

ISBN-1: 0

Since the closing years of the 19th century, the works of Marquis de Sade have assumed an increasing importance in the world of literature. And the recent production of the Peter Weiss play - briefly known as Marat/Sade - has focussed new attention on this important writer. 'Justine', now published in England for the first time in a complete and unexpurgated translation, is undoubtedly his most celebrated and vilified work. As the French critic, Maurice Blanchot, has said: "It is true to say that nowhere in the world, and at other tome, has there been such a scandalous book in whole of literature."
This new translation, together with annotations and an introduction, is by Allan Hull Walton.