/lit/ - Literature

>>12527830
Torture is delicious..

Books for this feel?

>>11199274
Marquis de Sade, as well as mocking moral realism, satirises the inhumanity and excess of self-proclaimed moralists and reformers. Scenes and characters inspired by the Inquisition and the Reign of Terror. He's a fascinating figure. He's not just an edgy LARPer since he actually did whip and sodomise maids, prostitutes and adolescent servants - and got into a lot of trouble for it - but he's also not this archvile of violent ruthless amoralism. He was horrified by the violence of the Terror and used his (short lived) capacity as judge to spare as many people as he could from execution, including his in-laws who had been responsible for his extra-judicial confinement for the better part of the last decade or so.
>>11199310
Flaubert called him "the most Catholic writer", if I recall correctly.

>>9558526
this book for me too anon