The Sadeian Woman
An Exercise in Cultural History
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'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN
'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN
'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT
'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields.
But now Sade has met his match.
With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his extreme imagination, and transforms them into symbols of our time - the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. Angela Carter delves into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a dazzling vision of love which admits neither of conqueror nor of conquered.
'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN
'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT
'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields.
But now Sade has met his match.
With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his extreme imagination, and transforms them into symbols of our time - the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. Angela Carter delves into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a dazzling vision of love which admits neither of conqueror nor of conquered.
- Published: Oct 06 2016
- 194 x 128mm
- ISBN: 9781844083770
Press Reviews
- New Statesman
Angela Carter is neither ordinary nor timid. The tone is one of intellectual relish ... rational ... refined ... witty
Lorna Sage
The boldest of English women writers
Edmund Gordon
The GuardianHer work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal, and is always shaped by a keen, subversive intelligence and a style of luxuriant beauty
Gaby Wood
IndependentAngela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules