Juliette

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However, one single hint of resistance, let me repeat, one reluctant gesture were fatal: it will cost you the loss of all you have won by complacency heretofore: yield: unless you acquaint yourself with everything, you’ll know nothing; and if you’re so timid as to pause in your conversation with her, Nature will escape you forever.

It’s much more fun to read about something in Sade, and find it disgusting or dull, than it is to read about something disgusting or dull in another “erotic” novel and realize it’s there because the author thought you’d like it. For feelings of guilt, once again, are nought but the distillations, the effluvia of a prejudice produced by fear of what may befall us for having done any conceivable kind of thing forbidden for who knows what vague or flimsy reason. Executed in watercolour and consistently blushing with pigment, Juliette takes us behind the curtains and beneath the sheets. A woman finds closure 40 years after being betrayed by her first love in this lukewarm tale of forgiveness and redemption from Fay (Catch Us When We Fall).

You, my pigeon,” she went on, kissing me with inordinate feeling, “you’ll not leave my clitoris unattended, will you? She places us side by side on the bed; following her recommendation, we each advance a hand and set to polluting each other. De Sade is a towering figure in any literary canon founded upon joy, for reasons at once enlightening and complex. The enacted deed produces another; and who is there doubts that this multiplying of delights very speedily induces a soul to adopt the lineaments and character it has got to have, however painful at first may have been the difficulties wherewith, perforce, it was beset by the deed in question? The fundamental tenet of my philosophy, Juliette,” went on Madame Delbéne, who, since the loss of Euphrosine, had become more and more fond of me, “is scorn for public opinion.

Green wraps, 12mo, 201pp, 1st edn thus, Very Good plus with light general wear, corner crease on back cover and small sticker residue at btm of fr cover, nice copy of this scarce volume.

Thus may it be in the case of every other extravagance; like lubricity, they may all be readily transformed into custom, and like lewdness, each of them may provoke an agreeable vibration in the nerve fluids: this poignant itching, closely resembling passion, may become quite as delectable and consequently, like it, metamorphose into a primary need. All but two volumes bear a small, attractive Dutch bookplate; three have a second, smaller, attractive one.

Guilt, thus, is merely an unpleasant reminiscence; it crops out of the customs and conventions one happens to have adopted, but it never results from, never has any connection with, the character of the deed one happens to have performed. Tis the result of nought but our cultural manners and our upbringing, it is what is known as a conventional habit.The first unexpurgated English translation of Justine (by 'Pieralessandro Casavini', a pseudonym for Austryn Wainhouse) was published by the Olympia Press in 1953.

By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Since the book takes place a few years before the French Revolution, this could possibly imply that Juliette was one of the many aristocrats guillotined by crazed revolutionaries, or purged by Napoleon's regime like de Sade himself was. It was, she assured me, an unprincipled, lawless, a faithless, an impudent brazen creature who flaunted her wicked notions; vigorous measures would long ere this have been taken against her were it not for her influential position and distinguished birth. Euphrosine knowing full well what was apt to flatter Delbéne’s tastes, amidst her pollutions interspersed sharp slaps upon the nun’s behind: they had an indubitable effect upon our amiable instructress’ physical being.

Slowly, Juliette finds herself entangled with the unlikely Georges, a dyspeptic alcoholic who is stuck in his life. Juliette boards a train from Paris and comes back to her hometown hoping for a low-key visit with family and old friends. Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.