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When UC Irvine Prof.
June 26, 1985
World & Nation
Marquis de Sade. The very name has come to epitomize sexual aberration.
July 15, 1991
“As soon as the grave is filled in, acorns should be planted over it, so that new trees will grow out of it later, and the wood will be as thick as it was before.
Dec. 16, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
Theater review: The depiction of the final days of Marquis de Sade becomes a harrowing argument for free speech in ‘Quills.’
Oct. 11, 1996
Movies
French writer Roland Topor, a satirist and caricaturist, and Belgian director (and co-writer) Henri Xhonneux had the singularly inspired idea to dramatize the incarceration of the Marquis de Sade in the form of a bestiary, one of those medieval natural history books illustrating moral fables.
July 16, 1992
July 17, 1992
THE FAN-MAKER’S INQUISITION A Novel of the Marquis de Sade; By Rikki Ducornet; Henry Holt: 212 pp., $22
Nov. 7, 1999
AT HOME WITH THE MARQUIS DE SADE: A Life. By Francine du Plessix Gray (Simon & Schuster: 492 pp., $27.50) ; SADE: A Biographical Essay. By Laurence L. Bongie (University of Chicago Press: 336 pp., $29)
Nov. 15, 1998
The movie about the Marquis de Sade means to underscore the ongoing struggle between expression and repression.
Nov. 27, 2000