The Marquise de Gange
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2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-884828-8 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-884828-8 (ISBN)
Loosely based on one of the most notorious crimes of the seventeenth century, The Marquise de Gange by The Marquis de Sade is a neglected classic. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, the novel reads with the same subversive tension of an author plotting against virtue in his distress.
'It is time to die, Madame: there shall be no mercy for you..!'
It was one of the most shocking crimes of the seventeenth century, and would provide Sade with the inspiration for the last novel he published. The beautiful and virtuous Euphrasie, admired by the King himself, falls in love with the young and handsome Alphonse, Marquis de Gange. Within the forbidding walls of his castle in Provence, however, sinister forces are conspiring against the young couple. Alphonse's brothers, the Abbé and the Chevalier, want Euphrasie for themselves.
Published in English for the first time, The Marquise de Gange is a neglected Gothic classic by one of the most notorious authors in the literary canon. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, beneath the novel's thin veneer of respectability lurks the same subversive presence of an author plotting against virtue in distress.
'It is time to die, Madame: there shall be no mercy for you..!'
It was one of the most shocking crimes of the seventeenth century, and would provide Sade with the inspiration for the last novel he published. The beautiful and virtuous Euphrasie, admired by the King himself, falls in love with the young and handsome Alphonse, Marquis de Gange. Within the forbidding walls of his castle in Provence, however, sinister forces are conspiring against the young couple. Alphonse's brothers, the Abbé and the Chevalier, want Euphrasie for themselves.
Published in English for the first time, The Marquise de Gange is a neglected Gothic classic by one of the most notorious authors in the literary canon. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, beneath the novel's thin veneer of respectability lurks the same subversive presence of an author plotting against virtue in distress.
Dr. Will McMorran is a Reader in French & Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. His translation of Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom with Thomas Wynn was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2017.
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of the Marquis de Sade
THE MARQUIS DE GANGE
Appendix
Explanatory Notes
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.10.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford World's Classics |
Übersetzer | Will McMorran |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 196 mm |
Gewicht | 178 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-884828-5 / 0198848285 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-884828-8 / 9780198848288 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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