Philosophy in the Bedroom

6 hrs. 36 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Marquis de Sade

Narrator Dmitry Negodyaev

Description

The name of the Marquis de Sade became a household word already in Napoleonic times. Yet the character of his fame turned out to be such that his son hurried, after his father’s death, to burn his unpublished manuscripts—“offensive to law and morality.” The Marquis de Sade himself spent more than thirty years in various prisons, charged with sexual crimes. There he wrote an enormous number of works, among which “Philosophy in the Bedroom” is one of the most vivid and elegant.

Adult listeners will be able to appreciate the mischievous eroticism and witty cynicism of this novel, which rejects accepted public norms and proclaims a free hedonistic morality—an ideology of permissiveness and a “philosophy of pleasure.”

“Rakes and ladies of pleasure of all ages and ranks—this work is intended for you alone: drink in its principles and they will certainly set you aflame. Don’t believe the cold, dull moralists who keep frightening you with passions—only through feelings does nature push a person along the path prepared for him. Trust the delightful voice of passions—and it will inevitably lead you to happiness…”