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"120 Days of Sodom" is a complex and multifaceted work that has been subject to various interpretations. Some see it as a critique of the excesses of the French aristocracy, while others view it as a exploration of the human psyche.
The Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom (written in 1785, published 1904) stands as one of the most controversial and challenging works in the Western literary canon. Often described by Sade himself as "the most impure tale ever told," the novel is less a work of fiction intended to seduce and more a clinical, "hallucinatory" catalogue of human depravity and absolute power. The Dungeon of the Enlightenment
However, Sade had underestimated his own paranoia. He had hidden the manuscript in a crevice in his cell wall. It was discovered only in the early 1900s and published for the first time in 1904. The text survived, but it was incomplete, with the final sections existing only as notes and fragments.
