Francine Du Plessix Gray

At Home With The Marquis De Sade (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), one of the most perplexing personalities of Western culture, has been called 'the freest spirit who ever lived' and 'a frenetic and abominable assemblage of all crimes and obscenities'. Yet scant attention has been given to the two women who were the catalysts of his fate: his loyal, tolerant wife, Renee-Pelagie, and his vindictive mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil. This groundbreaking account vividly brings to life these two dynamic women and the complex bonds they evolved with the rakish Marquis, as they dedicated themselves to protecting, curbing and, ultimately, confining him. Francine du Plessix Gray draws on thousands of pages of correspondence between the magnetic, aristocratic Marquis de Sade and his plain, bourgeois wife, to explore in historical and psychological detail what it was like to live with this maverick adventurer and man of letters in the decades before the French Revolution. She brilliantly recreates the extravagant hedonism and corruption of late-18th-century France, the ensuing Terror, and the oppression of the Napoleonic regime under which de Sade spent his last years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448163069
• Artikelnr.: 37903597

Autorenporträt

Francine du Plessix Gray is a distinguished novelist, essayist and biographer, as well as a journalist and university lecturer.
She was born in the French Embassy in Warsaw, and, after her father's death with the Free French Forces in the Second World War, emigrated to the United States with her Russian -born mother. She has been decorated by the French government as Chevalier DE L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. In 1983 she received the National Magazine Award for best Reporting for her articles in Vanity Fair, currently she contributes frequently to the New Yorker. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, the painter Cleve Gray.
She has written eight previous books of fiction and non-fiction. Her first book, Divine Disobedience: Pro-files in Catholic Radicalism (1970) won the National Catholic Book Award. Other titles include Soviet Women (1990) and a biography of the nineteenth century French writer, Louise Colet, entitled Rage and Fire (1994).