The 120 Days of Sodom

Synopsis

Winner of the 2017 scott moncrieff prize a new translation of sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel. This disturbing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: flaubert and baudelaire both read sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as andrea dworkin and angela carter clashed over him.