Justine - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Justine, or: The Misfortunes of Virtue [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (Naxos), Publisher, Local Library] by Marquis de Sade, trans John Phillips, part of the Oxford World’s Classics series Gilles Deleuze in Coldness and Cruelty insists that sadism (as inaugurated by de Sade) is at root the carnal application of critical inquiry. De Sade’s first […]

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Therese Raquin (Oxford World's Classics) By Emile Zola

I recently had the pleasure of reading Therese Raquin (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola. As someone in my twenties, I can honestly say