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Aline et Valcour; ou, Le Roman philosophique is an epistolary novel by the Marquis de Sade. It contrasts a brutal African kingdom, Butua, with a South Pacific island paradise known as Tamoé and led by the philosopher-king Zamé. Sade wrote the book while incarcerated in the Bastille in the 1780s.
Ostensibly an epistolary novel, Aline and Valcour actually combines genres, interweaving the adventure story, libertine novel, and the novel of feelings out of which emerges a unitary tale enlivened by complex and carefully nuanced characters.
Nov 25, 2019 · Though originally published in 1795, Aline and Valcour is the last of de Sade's major works to appear in English -- in part, no doubt, because it is not as obsessively and excessively sexually graphic as much of his fiction.
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Dec 2, 2019 · Aline and Valcour, Vol. 1: or, the Philosophical Novel. Paperback – December 2, 2019. Set against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the multiple themes that would become the hallmark of his far more sulfurous works.
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Simmons reports: In 2007 my wife Jocelyne began showing me drafts of the first pages of a 1795 novel by Marquis de Sade (1740-1814). Aline and Valcour had never been translated in English. Unlike much of Sade’s work, it’s not pornographic but character-driven, highly structured and, we soon realized, a genuine masterpiece. John Galbraith Simmons.
