Is it necessary to read Marquis de Sade's book?

As there are many book reviews about Marquis de Sade, I don't think it is necessary to add them. But because I pay enough attention to Sadr, I think it is necessary to write something for this extreme writer. However, because I have only read the Chinese version, I haven't even finished reading the famous boudoir philosophy (or the philosophy in the bedroom), and it has been nearly a year since I first read Sodoma 120, not to mention the English version is difficult to read, so I only took a look at Juliet or the misfortune of virtue (English version). Nevertheless, I want to discuss the ideas of Marquis de Sade's works (not Marquis de Sade's) according to the theme.

Note: Sadr, virtue and evil virtue.

At least in my opinion, Sadr does not meet the requirements of literary style, or because of the special status of his works, he is bound to become ambiguous. But this is also probably my own wrong judgment. When it comes to Sadr's yellow book and romantic history, it's easy to imagine a historical figure. His behavior is no different from that of a modern pervert who comforts himself by watching AV, injecting overflowing desires into quill pens and spraying them on toilet paper, except that Sade happens to be the one with extreme lust and violence among them. As long as Sadr is placed in the history of the French Revolution, we can find that Sadr's lust and violence are not his own unique creation at all, but directly come from the dissolute prodigal son, angry people and desperate king. However, Sadr publicly denied that he had written some pornographic books that were not suitable for adults, and openly refuted an opponent with righteousness. But if we understand this behavior as a writer's disguise to save his life, then this disguise will steal the host's attention-if the previous theme is lust and violence.

Say that my brush is too sharp, and that I give an ugly rendering to evil virtue. Does the person who said this want to know why? I don't want people to love evil, such as Kribion or Dora, with ulterior motives, so that women love those who cheat them; On the contrary, I hope they hate him. Only in this way will they not be cheated. In order to do this, I write the things that have been evil in the protagonist so abominably that they can never attract people's pity or love. I dare say that in this respect, it is more ethical than those writers who think they can beautify them. The toxic works of these authors are like American fruits, which hide their death under the cover of extremely bright colors. Perhaps it is not for me to reveal the reasons for this betrayal of nature, but it should be pointed out that this kind of behavior is not born of human beings. I want to say it again, I will always only paint evil as hell. I want people to see it for what it really is, fear it and hate it. I don't know any other way to achieve this goal, that is, to expose its evil characteristics. Let those who wrap their sins in roses be punished! Their eyes are not so pure, I will never imitate them. Therefore, I hope that everyone will not attribute the novel of Remou to me according to this system! I have never written such a work. Although I sincerely deny it again and again, only fools or bad people will doubt or accuse me of being its author. For their slander, my only weapon in the future is to despise them with great pride.

At the end of the novel Random Thoughts, Sade reversed his theme: instead of depicting evil virtue, he contrasted virtue. On the contrary, those writers who beautify evil virtue are the ones who really have evil virtue. This, of course, is only Sadr's word, and people may not believe it. But in view of this kind of writing full of true feelings, I am still willing to believe in Sade-or the antonym of words.

Evil virtue

Many philosophers in Thade's works tout evil virtue. Evil is evil, an independent and essential thing, not attached to the embodiment of human nature. In addition to this basic law, this evil is obviously intertwined with lust, violence, power, anti-Christianity and natural nature. Taking natural nature as an example, the philosophers in the novel bind egoism with human nature and human nature with natural nature, and stipulate that egoism is Alai's explanation of evil. Since selfishness is such a fundamental human nature, the behavior of thieves and robbers is beyond reproach, because their behavior is completely in line with natural nature, so it is reasonable. Because society always preaches some degree of selfless dedication, then society must define selfishness as an evil. Moreover, taking anti-Christianity as an example, in Sodom 120 and Justine, or the misfortune of virtue, we can see at a glance that the confrontation between villain morality (and perhaps bitch morality) and Christian morality is both linguistic and ideological, and because Christianity stipulates that it represents good, then villain represents evil.

The field of evil virtue thus established has formed its own space. Of course, there are other themes in this space, such as lust, but especially in Justina, the protagonist will encounter all kinds of misfortunes, as if there is no other scene in the world of the novel except the theme of evil virtue. But because the distribution of good and evil is so unbalanced, it seems that everyone is either practicing evil virtue or suffering from it until death arrival, people return to the earth, and lightning splits their souls and goes to heaven.

Furthermore, because evil virtue has its own essence, it will be able to partially actively manipulate the situation or control the villains. In this regard, I think that in some extreme thoughts, the villain seems to have given up part of his free will or returned his will to nature. This makes the villain part break away from the general moral accusation-I don't want to do evil myself, but nature instructs me to do so. If you use the metaphor of shooting and killing people, then evil deeds are bullets, individuals are pistols, and pulling the trigger is a matter of course. Although this can be regarded as sophistry, we can see that this reversal really happened in the space of Sade's novels. For example, reason-presented in moral preaching-was betrayed by a villain, although he claimed to be rational, thus completing the erosion of reason by evil virtue. Foucault pointed out that a fundamental theme of Sade is the self-destruction of nature (deformed man).

pure

This word can also be changed to "pole", "pole" and so on. But they all describe the same feature of Thad's works. It is based on this feature that I can organize the text according to the theme.

Pure evil, pure desire, pure power, pure reason ... what do these mean? But I haven't studied it, so I first described what is pure nature, and then put it on the analysis of others.

Pure evil is such an evil, which directly comes from human nature and is an obligation endowed by nature. The pleasure of doing evil is real, but the pleasure of doing good is hypocritical. You can't defile evil with goodness any more than you can defile truth with falsehood. We should not emphasize (Christian) morality on evil. On the contrary, we should oppose morality, attack morality in a big way and defend the distortion of natural nature.

Purity is such a kind of sex and an important means of enjoyment, and enjoyment belongs to human nature. You can't defile sex with love, marriage, politics or procreation. For example, sex and politics, the king of Sadr argued like this: because politics is not natural and eternal, it is influenced by external factors and is not necessarily fun; So, if politics can't bring happiness to individuals, then leave politics alone.

Other topics will not be listed one by one. In these thoughts, we find that this argument is rational, but at the same time it is strongly anti-moral on the perceptual level, which is surprising. I wouldn't be surprised if it came from a madman and was a little upset. However, it is this logically self-consistent and emotionally cold rational discourse that makes people feel counterintuitive and unfamiliar. This makes people wonder whether philosophers' praise of rationality that violates morality (whether it is morality at that time or modern morality) implies questioning rationality and defending morality-however, this is my misunderstanding and a point that puzzles me. Sade is always radical.

In Kant's Avec Sade [1] by Kant and Sadr, Lacan pointed out that Kant's absolute moral law and Sadr's world of desire are isomorphic. Kant's practical rationality, which does not contain pure laws of desire and consequences, was injected with happy content by Thade, and the desire in Kant's system was exposed as a result. Moreover, compared with Kant, Sade is more sincere, because Sade's desire comes from the subject and is naked, while Kant's desire comes from the other and is illusory.

force

This theme is not only the premise of the implementation of evil morality, but also the content of evil morality. Fortunately, in the real world, it is often virtue that holds power (whether it is prosperous or troubled times), so it is difficult to see when evil virtue will reverse; I also believe that there is no social order based on evil. Such a society can only be found in an extremely deformed power system. Except for the deserted castles and dark and damp cellars in Sodoma 120, it is rare in the real world-for example, the Internet addiction treatment center in Yang Yongxin, the men who abduct girls (not necessarily in this way) as sex slaves, or gangs among primary and secondary school students.

Pasolini made good use of this theme and created the film Salo, or Sodoma's120th. One of the themes is criticizing fascism-a villain in a French border castle suddenly entered the Salo Palace.

One of the kings described by Thaad strongly agrees with Machiavelli's view in The Prince: in order to rule, a king should be able to do whatever it takes, including violating social morality, such as murder and framing. But when its most extreme form also appeared in good people, the situation changed. The binary opposition between good and evil has been replaced by another opposition. It is very moral for a kind person to resist and overthrow the rule of an evil king. But when the Lord made peace with the robber, when Juliet's oppression was combined with Dubois's resistance, the dual relationship between the king and the criminal was highlighted. In controlling others' life and death and seizing political power, criminals are illegal kings and kings are legal criminals. But when the French Revolution struck, the king became a criminal, and when excessive violence and a strong desire for justice dominated the people, the power relationship became prominent. The public servants and thieves described by Thad advocate that the strong should and must oppress the weak, and the weak should and must resist the belief of the strong.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that not all Sade's works are very powerful. There is also a kind of thinking: when everyone pursues natural nature, when everyone ignores morality, people gain freedom. Morality is such an obstacle to people's freedom, especially sexual morality makes women submit to men-the moment it is destroyed is the moment when women have complete power to decide their own behavior.

laugh

Sadr's satire on Christianity is his eternal theme. I like the article The Philosopher's Teacher very much, in which "father and son" were stolen by Sadr for "dog man and dog woman" and "Trinity" was stolen for "priest-teenager-girl". The original text is as follows:

Committed to children's education and instilling all kinds of knowledge into their minds, the mystery of Christian theory is of course one of the most mysterious and magical parts of this education, but it cannot easily enter the young minds of students.

For example, there is a teenager who is only 14 or 15 years old. Let him believe that father and son are the same, son and father are the same, and father and son are the same. This is absolutely necessary for his lifelong happiness, but it is more difficult for him to understand than algebra. To succeed, he must use some concrete statements and some substantive explanations. Although it is inappropriate, it is convenient for naive children to understand mysterious things.

No one knows this teaching method better than Father Dupaben. Now he is the tutor of Count Nice. The little count is only about 15 years old, with a beautiful face, which is rare in the world.

Every day, the little count said to the teacher, "To tell the truth, Father Tang, I really can't say the same thing. I can never understand how two people can become one person. Please elaborate on this mystery, I beg you! At least let me understand! "

The honest priest in our church was bent on education and was willing to train students to be promising talents in the future, so he came up with a pleasant way to solve the problem that troubled the count. This method is natural and must be foolproof.

So, he brought a 13-year-old girl to his house, trained the little baby well, and then let her mingle with the students.

"How about it?" He said to the count, "My friend, do you know the mystery of homophones?" It didn't take much effort to understand that two people can be one. "

"Oh, my God, I see, Mr. Father," said the fascinated beautiful boy. "Now I know everything, it's easy to surprise! I won't be surprised if someone says that this mystery makes people in the sky reach the realm of bliss, because it is great fun for two people to synthesize one person. "

A few days later, the little count asked the teacher to give him another lesson, because-he said-there was something in the mystery that he still didn't quite understand. In order to make it clear, he had to practice it again on the spot like last time. The easygoing priest seemed to be as interested in the scene as the students, so he called the little girl and had another class.

But this time, the priest was very excited to witness the wonderful beauty of the beautiful young boy Nishi and his little girl companion. He can no longer just sit by and give advice on how to decipher the metaphor of the gospel. He touched the charming beauty with his hand and touched it. Soon, his whole body caught fire. "I think it's a little too soon," Dupagai said, putting his arms around the little count's waist. "Elastic ups and downs are a bit high, and the fit is not close. The image of the mystery to be demonstrated is inappropriate. ..... if the pressure point? Yes, that's it. " At some point, this bastard took the little girl as a student.

"Oh, my God, you're hurting me, father. The young man shouted, "Besides, I don't think this ceremony is useful. What else can you teach me about this unsolved mystery? "

"Hey, it's really him ..." The priest groaned humorously. "Dear friend, didn't you see that I taught you everything at once? My child, what I explained to you today is the trinity! After five or six more classes, you can become a doctor in Thoburn! "

In mutual punishment, the husband slept with the nun's cousin, but the wife was angry, so she went to sleep with the priest.

Didn't you say there was no danger in sleeping with people in the church? Can the soul be purified from such sacred communication, become one with the supreme God, or let the Holy Spirit enter our bodies, in short, open the road to happiness in heaven? Well, my son, I just did what you said, so I'm a saint, not a bitch! Hey, I can assure you, if God really has such a kind soul as you say, and has a way to open the road to happiness in heaven, it must be Father DuPont, because I have never seen such a huge key. "

This pun immediately reminded me of Brief's huge key to the door of hell in Angel in garter.

In The Pastor's Husband, the pastor and her husband completed the function exchange at the same time, and the husband attended mass and completed the religious ceremony in the monastery like a priest. The priest did it like a stallion in her husband's house and completed the secular ceremony.

After dinner, two friends went hunting. When he came back, Rodin told his wife about his service to Gabriel. The confused fat man laughed and said, "I preside over mass." Yes, it's great. I preside over it, just like a real priest in this church. " At that time, our friend was measuring Renault's shoulder with a fork! He used a weapon on him, baby. what do you think? Sweep through ... oh, dear baby, (this story is really interesting, don't you think? Living bastards really make me laugh! What about you, my sweetheart? What were you doing when I presided over mass? "

"Ah, my friend," his wife replied, "it's like a revelation from heaven. You see, we have both enjoyed the gift from heaven, and we have never thought of it ourselves! When you were celebrating Mass, I was reading that wonderful scripture, which Gabriel replied to the Virgin when she announced that she was pregnant because of the power of the Holy Spirit [1]. Well, dear, since we have all done such great things, we will be saved. "