Anti-Justine

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Anti-Justine
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French title: "L'Anti-Justine"
Author: Nicolas-Edme Réstif
Released 1798

Reprinted: Wet Angel (2012)

Media Type Paperback
Pages 200
Specs 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-10 1902588932
ISBN-13 978-1902588933

Anti-Justine is a French pornographic novel by Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (1734-1806) published in 1798. It was written to oppose the political philosophy of the Marquis de Sade as expressed in Justine.

Réstif was perhaps the key author amongst a glut of imitators inspired by the publication of the Marquis de Sade's "obscene" masterworks in the late 18th century. In 1798 Restif wrote his pornographic epic The Anti-Justine (or The Joys of Eros), thus inaugurating a long tradition of "Sadean literature" that continues to this day.

The Anti-Justine is a pornographic novelization of Restif's own life and sexual debauches, which the author tried to defend "morally" by declaring his book to be an "antidote" to the supposed poison of de Sade; yet whilst the book opens with a spurious warning to women against cruelty, it soon develops into a monumental odyssey of sexual depravity which often rivals de Sade in its relentlessly explicit nature.

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See also [ Sadism and Masochism in fiction ]

References

  • Aleksic, Branko (2003). "Sur L'Anti-Justine : (compléments à la Notice bibliographique du n° 34)". Études rétiviennes (35): 215–220. ISSN 0295-3730.
  • Bloch, Iwan (2002). Marquis de Sade: His Life and Works. The Minerva Group. pp. 249–250. isbn 1-58963-567-1.
  • Porter, Charles Allan (1967). Restif's novels: or, An autobiography in search of an author. Yale Romantic studies. Yale University Press. pp. 384–389.
  • Young, Paul J. (2008). Seducing the eighteenth-century French reader: reading, writing, and the question of pleasure. Ashgate Publishing. p. 124. isbn 0-7546-6417-1.
  • Amazon.com
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