/lit/ - Literature

>>10015410

Love him, recommend him all the time (unironically). I read 120 Days of Sodom when I was in college. Basically a grotesque mix of flowery language and insane depravity. De Sade was kind of windy and probably got off on his own prose

Pasolini did a fine job adapting 120 Days as a condemnation of the Italian gov't (he probably lost his life because of it)

>>10015431
>flowery language

Nope. He is considered monotonous and talentless when it comes to style.

Great philosopher though.

>>10015442

>And catching up the syringe, he fills it with milk, returns to behind his object, brandishes the nozzle, plunges it into the vent, and shoots out the fluid. Having been told what to expect,
Eugénie submits to everything; no sooner is the remedy in her entrails than he lies down on the
bed and orders Eugénie to come at once and straddle him. "Now," says he, "if you've got
anything to do, have the kindness to do it in my mouth." The timid creature has taken her place
as she has been told to do, she pushes, the libertine frigs himself, his mouth, sealed hermetically to her asshole, catches every drop of the precious liquid that leaps out of it.

That's a fucking bouquet m8