Tag: Marquis de Sade
Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona
Image: The Triumph of Death - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1592). Public domain
Whether taken as a good or bad quality, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is a confounding novel....
Sunday essay: Portrait of Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
Portrait of Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), whose name
and writings gave us the term ‘sadism’ Wikimedia
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, sexual sadism was...