Who was Marquis de Sade? Why is he famous?
he was an author. “But if there seems little reason for literary people to concern themselves with Sade, he has found a new lease of life among philosophers and anthropologists. Bored and uneasy with our little lives we resort to the greater amplitude of symbols. Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.” (D.J. Enright in ‘The Marquis and the Madame’, in Conspirators and Poets, 1966) http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/desade.
