"Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage" ("The 120 Days of Sodom or the School of Licentiousness") is a French novel of erotic literature and Horror written in 1785 by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade, and first published in 1904 by Dr. Eugene Duehren. A work conceived in 37 days during the Marquis' stay in the Bastille prison and considered one of the most controversial and polemic in the history of literature.
Synopsis.
Four libertines get together and formulate a plan to occupy 120 days in the most unimaginable sexual excesses (urine, shit, blood), for which they draw up a code that will order the great carnal disorder of each of their long sessions of debauchery.
What will you find?
A highly controversial, exaggerated and courageous historical work that does not skimp on portraying the darkest and most twisted fantasies that have crossed the minds of many and that even today continue to be practiced on a more moderate level.
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