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Where? And, well..., I don't know for translations but, read in French, Sade's books are never boring. They are extremely attractive from a stylistic point of
by gbog 10y ago
Where?
And, well..., I don't know for translations but, read in French, Sade's books are never boring. They are extremely attractive from a stylistic point of view, but the theme and the story are utterly repulsive. It's just the work of a lunatic genious. He was obsessed by debunking one particular lie, which is that virtue is always rewarded, eventually. To me Justine ou les Malheurs de la vertu is his only book I was able to read to the end.
- dragandj 10y agoPeople always miss the point that the extremely vile debauchers represent the upper society: the aristocracy, church, the rich, and whatever was the fourth main character. Then, they do all the horible things to the poor in their isolated castle with the help of hired gunmen. The style is absolutely fantastic (I do not know about English translation)!
- throwanem 10y agoIt's been a while, but I recall the English translation's prose as being rather dry and stiff; it wasn't an obstacle to the reader, but neither was it rewarding.
- throwanem 10y ago> Where? Fight Club makes a lot of the same points about office life, but does so with confidence in its own observations rather than by pegging them to someone else's work where they really do not fit. To be clear, I'm not sure I agree with a lot of what Palahniuk has to say on the subject, either, and I'm not really a fan of his in general - IMO he goes for shock over substance rather too often, and he looks like the sort of dentist of whom you're not really surprised to hear he's been caught molesting his patients. But I'd have to say that in Fight Club he outdoes himself.