Sade, Fourier, Loyola

by Roland Barthes

Book Overview

In Sade/Fourier/Loyola, eminent literary theorist Roland Barthes offers a fascinating treatise on the nature of philosophical creation. Barthes examines the parallel impulses of Loyola, the Jesuit saint, Sade, the renowned and sometimes pornographic liber

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520066286
• ISBN13: 9780520066281
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

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Wonderful! The best, most readable book I have read by Barthes, and the best work I have read on Sade. Full of humor and insight with lots of savory biographical tidbits. The startlingly *natural* juxtaposition of Loyola, Fourier and Sade is cool and casual, not at all forced, and all the more remarkable for that. I read this in one sitting. You should too.