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Title: a shoddy cash-in
Review: Although this translation doesn't have the annoying archaisms ('twas, thou art, 'tis etc) of the Wainhouse/Seaver translations, this one is faithful to the tradition of dodgy 1960's Sade translations that omit the philosophical discussions that distinguish Sade's texts from any other sort of pornography. Almost unbelievably, the mock-serious philosophical pamphlet included with Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom- easily the most interesting part of the work, is missing- because "Meredith X" (the translator) has decided that it disrupts the 'continuity and flow' of the text. In the body of the translation itself there are in fact words and phrases absent from the French.(ie 'Crimson! F...ing Goat of Satan! etc) And at the end of the book there is a section transplanted from the 120 Days of Sodom- more or less a catalogue of tortures and degradations. An appalling cash-in.
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