Doing Some Measuring ahead of Time
Richard Davenport-Hines: Sade in Prison, 9 August 2001
Letters from Prison
by the Marquis de Sade, translated by Richard Seaver.
Harvill, 401 pp., £20, October 2000,1 86046 807 1 Show More
by the Marquis de Sade, translated by Richard Seaver.
Harvill, 401 pp., £20, October 2000,
De Sade's Valet
by Nikolaj Frobenius, translated by Tom Geddes.
Marion Boyars, 242 pp., £9.95, November 2000,0 7145 3060 3 Show More
by Nikolaj Frobenius, translated by Tom Geddes.
Marion Boyars, 242 pp., £9.95, November 2000,
“... not to mention the guys – whom he wouldn’t dream of including in any private sexual anarchy. Nikolaj Frobenius’s novel De Sade’s Valet is a literary equivalent of ‘avin’ it large in Romford. It is banal and successfully commercialised (having sold 150,000 copies in Scandinavia, Germany and France), but a spark from the Sadians’ brazier of ... ”
