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Sade: From Materialism to Pornography. By CAROLINE WARMAN. (SVEC 2002:01) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2002. x+178 pp. ISBN 0-7294-0773-X.
Throughout the nineteenth century, and for most of the twentieth, Sade was a focus for Romantic and post-Romantic hagiography. it was long customary not to analyse the recurring features of his texts but to glory in the very fact of their existence, as unprecedented manifestations of genius. Recent decades have seen the waning of this cult, and more attention is now being paid to textual analysis of the Sadian oeuvre. But even the most textually minded critics have been inclined to read Sade's work for what they see as its fascinating mix of themes and discourses. Almost no one expects of him, it seems, that he be a coherent thinker: he must be one of the few canonical authors read primarily for their self-contradiction. Against this background, it is interesting to note that there have...
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