Simone de BEAUVOIR (1908-1986). Autograph manuscripts (fragm - Lot 196

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Simone de BEAUVOIR (1908-1986). Autograph manuscripts (fragm - Lot 196
Simone de BEAUVOIR (1908-1986). Autograph manuscripts (fragments) [for Faut-il brûler Sade, 1951] ; 7 pages in-4 on graph paper. Carbon copies of a period typing of these pages are attached . Replacement pages to be typed for inclusion in this essay on Sade which will be published in December 1951 in No. 74 of Les Temps modernes, reprinted with two others in Privilèges (Gallimard, 1955), and since then collected with the same, under the title Faut-il brûler Sade ? The text of the manuscript contains slight variations on the published text. "In what does it deserve to interest us? His admirers themselves readily admit that his work is for the most part illegible; philosophically it escapes banality only to sink into incoherence. As for his dreams, they are not surprising in their originality; in this field, Sade has invented nothing, and we find in abundance in psychiatric treatises cases at least as strange as his. In truth, it is neither as an author nor as a sexual pervert that Sade imposes himself on us: it is through the relationship he has created between these two aspects of himself. Sade's anomalies take on their value when, instead of suffering them as a given nature, he elaborates an immense system in order to claim them [...]. Sade tried to convert his psycho-physiological destiny into an ethical choice; from this act by which he assumed his separation, he pretended to make an example and an appeal: it is by this that his adventure takes on a broad human significance "...
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