>Penguin finally decides to pick up the works of de Sade >we are finally liberated from shitty versions >this is the cover
On a related note, why hasn't there been any proper English versions of the works of de Sade (aside from those thick Grove Press collections)?
Gabriel Smith
wow that's a dope cover.
Isaiah Collins
What's wrong with the other versions?
Josiah Miller
Neat. St. Peter's cross is neat
Ayden King
looks like a 60s art piece gross
Joseph Lewis
m8 you can't buy a decent copy of the quintessence of debauchery and that doesn't even need translating. Fuckin' grey ones ruin everything.
Ryder Rodriguez
show me the one for justine
Owen Gutierrez
whats better? 100 years of solitude or 120 days of sodom
Dominic Martinez
>>we are finally liberated from shitty versions uh, buddy, i think you should know that's not the case unless they took even more out than he didn't write
Cooper Gray
220 Eons of Solitude and Sodom
Luke Perry
sounds like my kind of book
Hunter Jones
just get this one
Levi Thompson
...
Kayden Rodriguez
is Coil the most Veeky Forums band?
Jace Gonzalez
That's a fucking nice cover.
Jonathan Williams
That's a Man Ray photograph. I think it's okay. It's often weird when publishers try to use actual works of historical art for covers to books.
Kevin Anderson
It's one of the only nice covers in the Penguin Deluxe Classics Line. Genuinely impressed it's in the same category as this schlock.
Michael Stewart
Nice Petrine cross
Tyler Perez
their music sounds like something off the runescape OST
Kayden Bennett
lmfao dat Communist Manifesto cover, wtf
Benjamin Reyes
I've always loved the Petrine cross because it actually holds an even humbler aspect of it than a regular cross. Peter didn't think himself worthy enough to even die in the manner of Christ and wearing the Petrine Cross plays into that.
Dominic Lee
My local Catholic Church has them on the alter. Some tombstones at the cemetery have them too
Robert Martinez
They really like comics too for some reason
Angel Hernandez
wtf I blame america's odd adult-still fascination with cartoons for this i am revolted
IN MY UTOPIA there would be communism and every single book would be the same one-coloured minimalistic DDR-looking anti-capitalist leather-bound edition with a small simple typeface spelling out the title and author damnit things were better then. none of this "appeal to the sales" shit. books would be boring looking and that's how it SHOULD BE.
not even being ironic.
Evan Miller
>not appreciating a Hobbesian Leviathan proclaiming law from on high as the ultimate manifestation of political sovereignty and stability utterly plebian He would require all books to be issued in leatherbound only to the aristocratic class. Only real literature would be bound, all producers of shit writing would be immediately enslaved.
Elijah Watson
The literature of edgelords since it's inception. Literally trash that people read so they can say that they've read it.
Actually, I'd go so far as to say that a large percentage of de Sade purchases just sit on the shelf in a very conspicuous way.
Jayden Thompson
The upside down cross is viewed as satanic by most (as of now) because of symbolical inversion. Ever wonder why there's two different pentagrams, one upright and one upside-down? Why would satanist need two different symbols to convey the same thing? Well, originally the upright one symbolized the five wounds of christ (among other "good" things), the upside down one was thus an inversion (whatever that would mean, fuck if I really know how it's suddenly evil if we're talking about the wounds of christ here. It's really all a bunch of mumbo-jumbo about magic as far as I can tell, but still), but nowadays (most) people the world over view them both as representing satan.
It's all about interpretation/perspective, is all I'm saying. That image just irks me, it seems like it was made by a smart-ass 14 year old.
Juan Brown
Nah son, it reads like it was made by a based student in seminary school, prepping himself to do the lord's work
Elijah Stewart
too flashy
Chase Sanders
Tbh I have a legit scat fetish and his stuff is among what few pieces of well-written literature there are to slake my thirst.
Aside from Joyce's letters and that one scene in Gravity's Rainbow.
Asher Cook
Read Mozart's letters
Samuel Carter
its an upside down cross you fucking pretentious faggot. stop trying to sound so sophisticated you piece of swine shit
Joshua Stewart
>why hasn't there been any proper English versions of the works of de Sade Actually oxford put out at least 3 of his books in english.
Blake Stewart
based OWC
Wyatt Bell
>Actually, I'd go so far as to say that a large percentage of de Sade purchases just sit on the shelf in a very conspicuous way.
You could say that for most if not all of the books discussed here. There was some study where a coupon was placed inside new books, in the last few pages. You could mail the coupon in and receive a cash prize, yet few people did so leading the researchers to believe that the books were never read all the way through.
My aunt slipped dollar bills into the bible she gave me for a similar reason.
Grayson Young
Seconding this. What on earth is supposed to be wrong with Grove press/etc?
Jose Brooks
Truly the symbol of humillity
Benjamin Murphy
>On a related note, why hasn't there been any proper English versions of the works of de Sade (aside from those thick Grove Press collections)?
Because they're shit. de Sade is only notable for the time he was writing it. If he were to write any of this today he'd be dismissed as a vapid edgelord and rightfully so. There's absolutely no substance to him, it's all just subversion for the sake of shock value.
Julian Scott
brb just going to flick through all my unread books. >inb4 your entire library xd
Evan Phillips
Not entirely true. At the time, he was a necessary corrective to Rousseau's optimism about human goodness and remains so today.
Charles Turner
tbf most people don't innately connect the two. Most courses just present Rousseau as his own vessel or juxtapose him to Hobbes. It'd be interesting for a course to cover both Rousseau and de Sade
Liam Powell
>I haven't read a word of De Sade.
Chase Murphy
Do you always state the fucking obvious?
Logan Bennett
Now, user, don't be so rude. Play nice with your new friend here.
Angel Clark
>how dare you discuss something on a discussion board
Ian Robinson
You're only buying it to be edgy anyway, it's not a work of significant merit
Might as well put a red swastika on the cover
Camden King
>mfw everyone who thinks they're being edgy Satanist are really just glorifying St. Peter and the Church he founded
No wonder the Church is so powerful, it's given a mystical boost every time some edgy little shit posts on DeviantART.
Joseph Hughes
holy fuck america how did this happen
Wyatt Ward
came to post this
Oliver Gray
Occasionally they spit out something nice, if disconnected from the work.
Samuel Morgan
100 years has fap material, but 120 days has better fap material.