Each storyteller is on duty for a month, and each evening she recounts a story from her life which illustrates five "passions" (perversions of the laws of nature and religion). Sex sessions are scheduled before and after a session of storytelling each evening. The orgy takes place from 1 November to 28 February and is organised according to a set of rules and a strict timetable to which each of the victims must adhere on pain of corporal punishment or execution. The libertines have also engaged a number of other servants including governesses, cooks and scullery maids. The other victims will be drawn from a harem of girls and boys aged from 12 to 15. The principal victims will be drawn from the four daughters of the libertines, three of whom have been given in marriage to the other libertines. Eight male accomplices, called "fuckers," have been recruited for their large penises. Their main accomplices are four middle-aged women who have spent their lives in debauchery and will recount stories of libertinage, torture and murder for the pleasure and instruction of the male libertines who will then seek to emulate these crimes on selected victims. Four wealthy libertines: the Duc de Blangis (representing the nobility), the Bishop of X*** (representing the clergy), the Président de Curval (representing the legal system) and Durcet (representing high finance) lock themselves in an isolated castle -the Château de Silling-atop a mountain in the Black Forest along with a number of accomplices and victims. The 120 Days of Sodom is set near the end of the reign of Louis XIV. Plot The modern, ruined Château de Lacoste Sade did not revise and correct the draft he had completed and therefore there are some errors and inconsistencies. Parts Two to Four mainly consist of detailed notes. Sade completed the introduction and first part in draft form. The novel consists of an introduction and four parts along with notes, supplements and addenda. Neil Schaeffer calls it "one of the most radical, one of the most important novels ever written," whereas for Laurence Louis Bongie it is "an unending mire of permuted depravities." Text Įxisting texts derive from an incomplete manuscript discovered after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. 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." Critical opinion, however, remains divided. The novel attracted increasing critical interest after World War II. 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 was banned as pornographic in France and English speaking countries before becoming more widely available in commercial editions in the 1960s. 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. When the fortress was stormed by revolutionaries on 14 July 1789, Sade believed the manuscript had been lost. Sade wrote it in secrecy while imprisoned in the Bastille. 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. 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. 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. 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. The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage (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.
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