An essay about this author poses the question "Can we, without renouncing our individuality, satisfy our aspirations to universality?"
An essay about this author poses the question "Can we, without renouncing our individuality, satisfy our aspirations to universality?" In one of his novels, the bandit Brisatesta and his wife Clairwil mentor the title character, who mocks the papacy during an audience with Pius VI. Another of his novels is narrated to Madame de Lorsagne by a character who suffers the many "misfortunes of (*) virtue". A Simone de Beauvoir essay asks "Must We Burn" this author, who wrote two novels about the daughters of Monsieur de Bertole and a novel in which four libertines lock themselves in a castle for four months. This man's time in the Charenton asylum was the subject of a Peter Weiss play in which he directs a production about Jean-Paul Marat. For 10 points, name this author of Juliette, Justine, and 120 Days of Sodom, a French aristocrat who lends his name to a term for erotic cruelty.
An essay about this author poses the question "Can we, without renouncing our individuality, satisfy our aspirations to universality?"
the Marquis de Sade [or Donatien Alphonse François de Sade]