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The Sadeian Woman

An Exercise in Cultural History. Virago Modern Classics

By (author) Angela Carter
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 5th Oct 2006
Dimensions: w 118mm h 194mm d 14mm
Weight: 185g
ISBN-10: 1844083772
ISBN-13: 9781844083770
Barcode No: 9781844083770
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'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.

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Angela Carter is neither ordinary nor timid. The 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 *