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Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue (French: Justine, ou Les Malheurs de la Vertu) is a 1791 novel by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade. Justine is set just before the French Revolution in France and tells the story of a young girl who goes under the name of Thérèse.
Justine, erotic novel by the Marquis de Sade, originally published in French as Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu. He wrote an early version of the work, entitled Les Infortunes de la vertu, while imprisoned in the Bastille in 1787 and completed the novel in 1791 while free.
'Justine is a story of two sisters, Justine and Juliette who have been thrown out of an orphanage. Mainly the book is about the sufferings of Justine, the...
Nov 11, 2021 · Justine Marquis De Sade - Justine (or The Misfortunes of Virtue) is set just before the French Revolution in France and tells the story of a young woman who goes under the name of Therese....
Mar 26, 2013 · First published in 1787, Justine is a classic from the legendary Marquis de Sade that eventually resulted in his conviction for obscenity and blasphemy. Set before the French Revolution,...
By overturning social, religious, and political norms he puts under scrutiny conventional ideas of justice, power, life, and death. Justine is a ferocious physical and intellectual assault on absolute notions of good and evil, and as such, one of the earliest literary manifestos for atheism.
Justine is de Sade's personification of the perfect believer - she's virtuous and blindly faithful to her God, naive and easily manipulated, always willing to help others and never learning from her mistakes or past experiences.
