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An Erotic Beyond: Sade

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Octavio Paz

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Our Assessment:

A- : excellent small pieces.

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  From the Reviews:

• "(S)erves as a valuable artifact of Paz's intellectual life, but a proper introduction -- more than the four sentences he offers -- would have given the book some much-needed context." - Laura Jamison, The New York Times Book Review

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The complete review's Review:

       A poem and two essays written between 1947 and 1986 make up this slim volume, chronicling Paz's interest in and reaction to the Marquis de Sade. Paz was a fine writer and a very intelligent reader. His thoughts on de Sade, though brief, are interesting, and they are very well presented (and ably translated by Eliot Weinberger). Anyone interested in de Sade (as a serious thinker or cultural phenomenon) or literary thought should take a look at this. Others might not find enough to hold their interest.

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Links:

• A Salon magazine article that touches on this book.

• The New York Times Book Review

• D.A.F. de Sade at books and writers
• Texts by de Sade

• Nobel Prize, 1990
• Octavio Paz at books and writers
• Octavio Paz at The Academy of American Poets
• Octavio Paz at epdlp
• Obituary in The Washington Post

• In Light of India
• A Tale of Two Gardens

• Peter Weiss' classic drama, Marat/Sade
• See Index of Erotic, Pornographic, and Sex-related books
• See also the Index of Latin and South American literature at the complete review

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About the Author:

       Mexican poet and author Octavio Paz (1914-1998) won the Nobel Prize in 1990.

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