Unfinished 1785 erotic novel by the Marquis de Sade
For the 1975 art film based on this book, see Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
The 120 Days of Sodom
Title page of Les 120 Journées de Sodome, first edition, 1904
Editor
Iwan Bloch
Author
Marquis de Sade
Translator
Austryn Wainhouse
Country
France
Language
French
Subject
Sadism
Genre
Pornography
philosophical novel
Publisher
Club des Bibliophiles (Paris) Olympia Press
Publication date
1904
Published in English
1954
Media type
Print (Manuscript)
OCLC
942708954
The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage[a] (French: Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is an unfinished novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, written in 1785 and published in 1904 after its manuscript was rediscovered. It describes the activities of four wealthy libertine Frenchmen who spend four months seeking the ultimate sexual gratification through orgies, sealing themselves in an inaccessible castle in the heart of the Black Forest with 12 accomplices, 20 designated victims and 10 servants. Four aging prostitutes relate stories of their most memorable clients whose sexual practices involved 600 "passions" including coprophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, incest, rape, and child sexual abuse. The stories inspire the libertines to engage in acts of increasing violence leading to the torture and murder of their victims, most of whom are adolescents and young women.
The novel only survives in draft form. Its introduction and first part were written according to Sade's detailed plan, but the subsequent three parts are mostly in the form of notes. Sade wrote it in secrecy while imprisoned in the Bastille. When the fortress was stormed by revolutionaries on 14 July 1789, Sade believed the manuscript had been lost. However, it had been found and preserved without his knowledge and was eventually published in a restricted edition in 1904 for its scientific interest to sexologists. The novel was banned as pornographic in France and English speaking countries before becoming more widely available in commercial editions in the 1960s. It was published in the prestigious French Pléiade edition in 1990 and a new English translation was published as a Penguin Classic in 2016.
The novel attracted increasing critical interest after World War II. In 1957, Georges Bataille said it "towers above all other books in that it represents man's fundamental desire for freedom that he is obliged to contain and keep quiet."[1] Critical opinion, however, remains divided. Neil Schaeffer calls it "one of the most radical, one of the most important novels ever written,"[2] whereas for Laurence Louis Bongie it is "an unending mire of permuted depravities."[3]
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^Phillips 2001, p. 32.
^Schaeffer 2000, p. 343.
^Bongie 1998, p. 260.
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