The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter

The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter

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Zusammenfassung

Angela Carter's highly acclaimed polemic enlisting the Marquis de Sade in an argument about women's sexual freedom.

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The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter

'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN 'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN 'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT 'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields. But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his extreme imagination, and transforms them into symbols of our time - the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. Angela Carter delves into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a dazzling vision of love which admits neither of conqueror nor of conquered.
Angela Carter is neither ordinary nor timidThe tone is one of intellectual relish ... rational ... refined ... witty * New Statesman *
The boldest of English women writers -- Lorna Sage
Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal, and is always shaped by a keen, subversive intelligence and a style of luxuriant beauty -- Edmund Gordon * The Guardian *
Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules -- Gaby Wood * Independent *
One of Britain's most original writers, Angela Carter was highly lauded for her novels, short stories and journalism. She died in February 1992.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9781844083770
ISBN 10 1844083772
Titel The Sadeian Woman
Autor Angela Carter
Serie Virago Modern Classics
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Little, Brown Book Group
Erscheinungsjahr 2006-10-05
Seitenanzahl 192
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