Torture Garden (Decadence from Dedalus)

ISBN: 9781903517871

出版社: Dedalus Ltd

出版年: 2010-02-09

页数: 210

定价: $ 18.36

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

"A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of shocking. The opening satire is probably meaningful only to scholars of French political history, but the subsequent journey into the Far East accentuates connections between love and death, sex and depravity, fastidiousness and pleasure. And the petty, parochial corruptions of the narrator are put into context by the immersion into the Sadeian world of the Torture Garden." The Times