The Ghosts of Sodom: The Charenton Journals

By Marquis de Sade and John Phillips

The Marquis de Sade's secret journal, kept while he was ailing in Charenton asylum, reveals the shadowy life of an exceptional, strange man whose abuses are legendary. The book takes us beyond the prisoner who once fled the Vincennes fortress; it also takes us beyond the prisoner of the Bastille whose imagination tortured him, both deliciously and cruelly, and who projected onto paper the burning and pitiable ghosts of his imagination with a desperate sensuality. This book contains the living, everyday presence of the 67-year-old man, when the first notebook begins.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840681012
• ISBN13: 9781840681017
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Creation Books
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Interesting insight into the final chapter of De Sade's life.

The only thing I wish was that there was more. Sade's family went to great lengths to make certain much of his personal writings were lost. To have this much gathered together is nothing short of miraculous, sure, but what questions this book answers only leaves still more to be asked. All that being said, I recommend this book for Sade enthusiasts, who are more interested in knowing more about the real man, rather than those who would rather assume the holes in his history can be filled by his fictions.