The Charenton Journals: Prison Diaries of a Sadist

The secret and scandalous journal which the Marquis de Sade risked severe punishment in order to maintain, even when ill and ageing at Charenton asylum, reveals the shadowy life of an exceptional, complex man whose philosophies and works are legendary. This book contains the living, everyday presence of Sade as an old man, almost 67 years old when the “first notebook†begins of his once-lost journal. In the “hospital-prison†of Charenton, under a liberal regime of surveillance, Sadeâ€...