Satan's Saint: A Novel of The Marquis de Sade by Guy Endore [FIRST EDITION] 1965 • Crown

Satan's Saint - A Novel of The Marquis de Sade by Guy Endore 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1965] CROWN PUBLISHING

Reprint.  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  

Dust jacket shows visible wear and tear; torn edges / creasing.  All tears have been professionally sealed with publishers grade adhesive.  Otherwise clean and in tact.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself is excellent.  Pristine purple cloth boards.  Reads like new.  

From Guy Endore, bestselling author of the highly influential horror masterpiece, Werewolf of Paris, Satan's Saint presents, for the first time, the full detailed story of a man whose acts of sexual cruelty were responsible for the word "sadism", and whose private pleasures paralleled his long suppressed books..

If one person seemed destined to write a novel that would bring to summation and climax the modern reappraisal of the Marquis de Sade, it is Guy Endore, whose writings, from The Werewolf of Paris to King of Paris, have been a vast preparatory training for the revelation of the Divine Marquis. SATAN'S SAINT is a literary event. It not only shows Sade in a convulsive storm of sex and uninhibited fury, with his conventional signature of women and whips; it also establishes him as a man much in advance of his time.

Sade called for the abolition of warfare, for judicial understanding of the most errant human impulses, for the widening of every kind of personal freedom. He tall ed back to tyranny. Imprisoned in the Bastille two weeks before it was stormed, he tore a funnel loose and, using it as a megaphone, shouted revolutionary slogans to the crowds in the streets.