>>24523060 (OP)It's quite probably not what you're looking for. If you're looking for a sexy or erotic tale, this is the contrary of that. Not even a hint of it. De Sade is a victim of his own perversion. I'm sure he tries to bring eroticism but he fails miserably. He doesn't love women, or at least he doesn't know how to express it in words. So the only thing you end up feeling is disappointment, because nothing is at stake, since you don't get to know or to love the character. He just describes pieces of meat being thrown around, as if talking about cattle of any other animal.
He just can't even give you a simple phrase like "A beautiful woman.." no, he just can't perform the crucial phase of humanizing and idealizing a character before punishing that character.
In the end, you realize he's just demonizing the church or any other institution of authority, using quite a low and filthy pamphlet, wich he can't even make a little bit sexy.
If you're going to read any of Sade's crap go for "The 120 Days of Sodom", so you can skip all the other shit and go for the real big shit. If you're looking for the "hardcore de sade" that's the only 'book' you need to read, wich I don't recommend. It's just a bunch of old rich people abusing other people to the extreme, without any justification or premise.
De Sade fails at what his known for, it happens all the time. Someone who comes up with "something" but it's not good at it.