As promised millions of years ago, I will continue with my explanations about the Marquis de Sade, more specifically on the works The 120 Days of Sodom whose reading concluded last year, and Philosophy at Alcova , I'm currently reading. Outline the plots of each (complete with a brief outline of The 120 Days of Sodom because the story structure and classification the characters so require a better approach to the work), will develop both critical comments about one another as in nature over which I have not discoursed on Tumblr or my daily bibliofágico previous , including mapping coordinates between - as they are by the same author and present many similarities between them, bearing in mind the obsession of the same themes and Sade Language This practice in almost all his literary and philosophical writings.
The 120 Days of Sodom
classes of characters:
four libertines (Duke of Blangis, Bishop, President of Curval, Durcet) - all those who command, those who promoted the season at Castle Silling, where everyone will live confined for four months, from November to March 1, without any contact with the outside world, BBB a kind of wanton and bloody in that there is "peephole". There will be four months of debauchery, orgies and all sorts of horrors, sex, blood, sex slaves subjected to a rigorous discipline and subject to punishment if broken, the passions are taken / satisfied according to a hierarchy of classes of the narratives, although this is broken again and again, each month equivalent to a class of passions.
four wives (Constance, Adelaide, Julie, Aline) - the four women of the Libertines (extend the meaning of that expression, because in fact the four are common property of 4, all objects, like Sade indiscriminately called for individuals to enjoy the sexually immoral are divided between them), 3 each married to one, and a daughter of the Bishop with one of the wives brother, the Duke (widow, killed all the women who had), all four having kinship ties with at least one of the Libertines (must also say here that incest happen there?). The marriages were sealed in order to strengthen relations between the four friends, and fun. The wives are mere sex slaves, no privileges.
four narrators (Duclos, Champville, Martaine, Desgranges) - enjoy privileges among the four libertines. Are responsible for the narratives, a class of passions per month (single, double, criminal and murderous), each at the same chronological order in which I presented above, intended to tell all with which have already come across or who knows of the class that was responsible and their respective months. The excesses are generally charged according to this hierarchy, so if contabilizarão dead among the unruliness of the last month. All narrators are masters in what they narrate, they launched into a life of crime prostituiçãoe currently procurers / pimps.
four old maids (Marie Louison, Thérèse, Fanchon) - created and guard harems of boys and girls, enjoy some privileges.
8 girls - totally sex slaves, all kidnapped, between twelve and fifteen. They'll be deflowered in December, and lost their Cabaços sodomites in January.
8 boys - the same situation and age of the girls, while enjoying the highest preference among fornicators, sodomites by their predilections, although this is not exactly an advantage. His Cabaços sodomites will be lost in January, as the girls.
8 Starfuckers - the name says more or less to serve that essentially, no? The main task of these roles is to represent the male macho when they want to afford the wanton whores are sodomized, and other secondary functions. Were chosen from those who possessed the largest and thickest member. The main Starfuckers, privileged for raising the preferences of their patrons, while women are Hercules, Antinous, Jigsaw ass and stick-to-heaven, has four other , junior, do not matter much in the narrative, Sade intended these few lines.
PS Sodomy is anal sex.
Making the beads, I give the floor to Eliane Robert Moraes, along with one of Borges Counter more theoretical, translators and disseminators Sade's work in Brazil:
" hundred and twenty days, six hundred passions. Four months of debauchery, four classes of defects. Every day, five events, totaling one hundred fifty per month. To account for these figures, a group formed by forty-six people, distributed in eight different categories, seven of which belong to the class of subjects. Eight boys, eight girls and eight Starfuckers. Four created [the old maids] and six cooks [these are not among the classes sexual orgies are exempt] . Four wives. Four narrators. Finally, the landlord class, the four libertines who always deserve individual description: Curval, Durcet, Blangis and Bishop. "
Now enumararei major types of dirty, perversions and evils which are recorded each month, a task well discharging the narrators, and thus inflame the desires of the Libertines, many then giving them to practice making use of its objects (as they perceive, I gain access to free me Sade appropriate terminology when suits best to explain his work and save vocabulary, hehe):
First Class, passions simple: simple masturbation, minor cases of pedophilia, pleased with urine and ingestion of the same (do not know a technical term and / or scientific for that), coprophagia / coprophilia, skies and veneration by buttocks without penetration pleasure with grandpa ; myths pleased with farts, other types of dirt and fluids, drinking sperm, sometimes mixed the faeces, oral sex, pleasure with boobs, socratização, cunnilingus, both moral and physical masochism (Sade talks about the need for some masochistic feel a moral emotion, like humilhaç s, to culminate in physical enjoyment), morbid fantasies, some with signs of necrophilia, prostitution, family, moral sadism and some cases of little physical violence.
Second class, dual passions: vaginal penetration, deflorações, pedophilia, rape, sex involving more than two partners (including the scatological, the sadist and the masochist), orgies, incest, safotismo (masturbation among women), sadism (some cases very cruel, involving up to pregnant women), unholy passions (those involving blasphemy, including Unbridled handling of sacred objects to Christianity), sadomasochism.
Third class of criminal passions: sodomy, deflorações of cus, fixation sex in some types of people (and old and black), pansexualism (or is even pansexuality?), more cases of sadism (the most violent and sophisticated, that the passions of the first, appearing here as fractures, mutilation ; es and castrations, among others) and morbid fantasies, cannibalism without death.
fourth class, the murderous passions: Every kind of poisoning, maiming and torture, with cruelty to rise above all the already read so far in the work, always culminating in death of the victims. Also necrophilia, cannibalism, provocation of starvation deaths, fires, landslides, etc..
PS As classes passions then avoid mentioning some of the pre-existing in previous classes, the example of scatological and sexual activity common accompanying torture - such as vaginal, oral and anal sex - or of specific types of individuals required to perform certain fantasies - As beggars, old and pregnant. Sodomy (whether homosexual or heterosexual) and sex with animals were considered crimes in francas other countries in the eighteenth century, so they are covered by the third grade. Passion is the term that Sade often uses to designate indiscriminately and distant from the sense that common sense and / or romantic grants you, the vices and desires of a sexual nature, will research even if, as I sense, such purposes is the fruit of a rescue of the etymological origin of the word, thus connected to its original connotation, probably related, then the physical desires of the body.
" Now, dear reader, prepare your heart And your spirit for reporting dirtier already done since the world exists because there is no similar book or between existing or among the moderns. Imagine that every honest joy or prescribed by this animal that do not stop talking without knowing it and who flames of nature, all these pleasures, I said, are expressly excluded from this collection and when, perhaps, the find, are always accompanied with a crime or colored in some infamy. Undoubtedly, many of the unruliness that you find here portrayed displease thee, though some warm you Aoa-point costing you shit, and it suffices us. " The 120 Days of Sodom , Illumination, trans. Alain François, pg. 62
Philosophy at Alcova
While The 120 Days Sodom is the most radical work of the Marquis de Sade, in which all conceivable excesses, and some surreal - on the edge of delirium manner for the purposes or impossibility - are committed solely for the sake of enjoyment, the most compelling of all the feelings that nature has prescribed, and that in order to respect it and on behalf of our pleasure and happiness, we must achieve at all costs, Philosophy at Alcova , although sharing the same moral and philosophical apology, more a propagandistic and educational work, where alternate theory to the practice of inserting a girl, Eugenie, the principles of the vices of debauchery and crime - as its title suggests as much as his subte ; ter, The Grifters Preceptors, function performed by Madame de Saint-Ange and his brother, the knight of Mirvel, and the sodomite Dolmance par excellence, responsible for such instruction ; the Young - freeing them from the prejudices instilled by education policy, who appreciates the virtues and the shame.
Philosophy at Alcova is a work where the political discourse, ideological and philosophical Sade, engaged in a republican view - however, ahead of their own Repub ; Republic and against the grain of some of its foundations, then the same applies to the Enlightenment, which in turn was a ground-ideals of the republican regime - and it supports all its moral lust , is very well explained and systematized into lessons for the young Eugenie - through a system of her questions and replies to their tutors, and theory allied to sexual practices - and by a manifest of the Republic Sade presented here as a booklet purchased by Dolmance, where it is contained, which at one time the work is read on the pretext of strengthening the instruction of Eugenie: Sade pedagogy, where they are lectured and often materialized in practice all its principles, the only voice to be heard is the nature that inspires us both virtues and vices, both required for its balance, the natural order in disorder, so there is no crime against nature that make the call as such, since all desires and pleasures derived from it; exhortation to the falsity of the supposed duties which kinship ties compel us, extending the same category of criticism with feelings of love, friendship and recognition; atheism and the need to abolish the religion to enslave the intellect of individuals, spread superstitions and condemn certain attitudes, to better submit them to the designs of kings and clergy, who in history have always been tyrants legitimizing each other, we share, the exercise of power (to Sade, to accept the Christian religion, the rights and aristocratic royalist rather than meritorious was incompatible with a republican regime, where the freedom of man you want is full, going against the monarchy and freedom according to ignorance and obscurantism, supporting himself in religion), the liberation of man through corruption in all customs and throwing himself all unruliness, especially sexual ones, the only despotism to be accepted, or better, legalized as a natural right of the republican citizen, is the of pleasure at any cost and at whose expense is, legitimate selfishness that a man should be happy to deliver, despite suppressing the happiness of others and submitting it to satisfy your pain pursuit of pleasure and enjoyment to the senses so ordered.
There is here the picture of the horrors and tortures refined and ultraviolent, one of the greatest aesthetic and philosophical foundations of The 120 Days of Sodom because the intentions prevalent in Philosophy at Alcova are teaching (including readers with slope s voluptuous, as witnessed by explicitly dedication of the book) and political, gender or serving as a crowning achievement of some of the teachings, rites of initiation in the universe Eugenie lustful libertine. There are beatings violent that all the sexually immoral, including the young already a member of the brotherhood - and not as a victim of the enjoyment of others, because their attitudes are criminal and the order of Saint-Ange since the beginning is to transform it into a more complete inquiry, recognizing their inclinations and talents - are subject to on a constant exchange of sexual roles and a frantic search for pleasure through s own pain or another, or merging the two antithetical feelings, those most excite the senses (like an orgy in which Eugenie gets fucked from the front while being flogged until they bled in the buttocks, and another in which Saint-Ange goading his brother, who sodomizes Eugenie, while their own are plagued by bites and tapas by Dolmance). There will be a castigation of the most violent in the outcome of the plot, in which a victim (a religious virtuoso, of course) will be presented to our "heroes" and will be subjected to a "conviction" hardcore. Sade is thus: libertine, cruel, radical preacher from a moral and a philosophy diametrically opposed to Christian and idealistic, respectively (in his words, religion should be subjected to moral and noo not, which is practically impossible, therefore atheism is indispensable weapon against the yoke intellectual, psychological and moral beliefs held by most religious, especially Christian), a combatant of the dominant discourse of virtue and feeling, engulfing them in the literary field, the victory of the vices and crimes, and are just in pearls of wisdom and transgression, despite its radicalism and its excesses, he dispersed between each call to the unbridled and selfish behavior where the culmination of pleasure should be the only north that we face with its liberating ... if we are prepared to read it.
Tomorrow I will add this post to the appropriate critical comments that I promised. Read other reflections, and quotations from both works, in my Tumblr .
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