In My Library – the Marquis de Sade

The Marquis de Sade books in my library – descending:

Retaliation: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737371170

The Self-Made Cuckold: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737371197

Justine

Justine

The Misfortunes of Virtue

The One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom

Juliette

The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

The Crimes of Love

The Marquise de Gange

The Marquis de Sade: A Life (Schaeffer)

Justine

Crimes of Passion

Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom & Other Writings

Sade My Neighbour (Klossowski)

Sade: The Libertine Novels (Phillips)

The Mystified Magistrate

Some Thoughts on the Novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1471796957

De Sade: Sex and Death: http://www.rjdent.com/sade-sex-and-death-the-divine-marquis-and-the-surrealists/

Aline and Valcour (Vols. 1, 2 & 3)

Historiettes, Contes et Fabliaux (Stories, Tales and Fables)

Letters From Prison

The Celestial Bandit – a tribute to Lautreamont and Maldoror

Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870), better known by his pen name Comte de Lautréamont, is the most influential writer most people have never heard of. Maldoror, the first of his two works, has been described as the most evil book ever written. It has also been described as the funniest. Either way, it provides some of the most gorgeous, twisty, weird sentences in any language.

An inspiration to the Surrealists, post-colonial Caribbean writers, and the Situationists to name a few, Lautréamont still garners a following today. In The Celestial Bandit, editor Jordan A. Rothacker brings together twenty-four contemporary artists from music, visual arts, and the writing world to pay tribute to this unique and exciting influence. Poetry, essays, short stories, experimental texts, and a dictionary of disruptive neologisms, this anthology has it all. 

Contributing authors and artists include: Mark Amerika, Louis Armand, R J Dent, Seb Doubinsky, Steve Finbow, Chris Kelso, Callum Leckie, Golnoosh Nour, Jeremy Reed and Audrey Szasz, amongst others.

All profits from the sales of The Celestial Bandit will be donated to Surfrider Foundation for their efforts to protect our oceans that Ducasse loved so much.

Book details and purchase link here: http://www.rjdent.com/the-celestial-bandit-a-tribute-to-isidore-ducasse-the-comte-de-lautreamont-edited-by-jordan-a-rothacker/

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Charles Baudelaire and the Marquis de Sade

Charles Baudelaire and the Marquis de Sade.

Charles Baudelaire – Selected Erotic Poems

Translated into English by R J Dent

Book details and purchase links:
http://www.rjdent.com/selected-erotic-poems-charles-baudelaire-translated-from-the-french-by-r-j-dent/

Sade – Retaliation

Translated into English by R J Dent

Book details and purchase links:
http://www.rjdent.com/retaliation-the-marquis-de-sade-translated-from-the-french-by-r-j-dent/

Kim Vodicka, author of Dear Ted: https://kimvodicka.com/ and @theelvismachine

Book details and purchase link:

https://rlysrslit.bigcartel.com/product/dear-ted-preorder-kim-vodicka

Selected Erotic Poems by Charles Baudelaire

Translated into English by R J Dent

Charles Baudelaire’s decadent erotic poems caused a scandal when they first appeared in 1857. Both author and publisher were prosecuted for unveiling works that were ‘an insult to public decency’, and six poems in the collection were suppressed.

These so-called indecent works (banned in France until 1949) were: Lesbos; Condemned Women: Delphine and Hippolyta; Lethe; To One Who Is Too Happy; Jewels; and The Metamorphosis of the Vampire— and all are included in this Pocket Erotica edition, plus 20 more.

Selected Erotic Poems

Charles Baudelaire

Translated from the French by R J Dent

Pocket Erotica No. 21, New Urge Editions

ISBN 978-1737943037

Format: Paperback chapbook

Pages: 64

Dimensions: 4 x 0.16 x 6 inches

Weight: 3.2 ounces

Purchase link (US): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737943034

Purchase link (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1737943034

Purchase link (Aus): https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1737943034

Translator’s website: www.rjdent.com

Pauline Baynes and J.R.R. Tolkien

Pauline Diana Baynes (9 September 1922 – 1 August 2008) was an English illustrator whose work can be found in more than one hundred books, notably several by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Pauline Baynes was born in Hove, East Sussex. She spent much of her childhood in Farnham, studying at the Farnham School of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts) and eventually attended the Slade School of Fine Art.

 

She worked for the Ministry of Defence, where she was soon transferred to a map-making department, and where she acquired skills that she later employed when she drew maps of Middle-Earth for J. R. R. Tolkien.

In her obituary for The Daily Telegraph, Charlotte Cory described how Baynes and Tolkien came to be associated:

‘In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to discuss some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for his novella Farmer Giles of Ham, when he spotted, lying on a desk, some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter that greatly appealed to him. These, it turned out, had been sent to the publishers ‘on spec’ by the then-unknown Pauline Baynes. Tolkien demanded that the creator of these drawings be set to work illustrating Farmer Giles of Ham and was delighted with the subsequent results, declaring that ‘Pauline Baynes has reduced my text to a commentary on her drawings’. Further collaboration between Tolkien and his Farmer Giles illustrator followed, and a lifelong friendship developed…’

Tolkien wanted Pauline Baynes to illustrate The Lord of the Rings, but the book grew into a huge project that made that particular plan impractical. Nevertheless, Baynes created immaculately drawn and exquisitely coloured versions of the author’s maps of the lands travelled by Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.

Baynes’ also designed a slipcase for the three volumes of Tolkien’s epic:

The slipcase illustrations were later adapted for the cover for the original one-volume 1973 paperback edition – an indispensable prop of the seventies generation – with its evocative landscape of Middle-Earth viewed through a doorway of yellow, over-arching trees.

The same designs were used for the 1981 three volumes edition.

Eventually, a drawing by Pauline Baynes was used to illustrate Tolkien’s final hobbit piece, the poem, Bilbo’s Last Song:

which appeared as a poster in 1974:

and then as a book in 1990:

Pauline Baynes was for a long while the only Tolkien illustrator of note.

Her work was approved by Tolkien himself, but faded from view as the Tolkien industry began to expand in the late seventies and other artists quickly crowded the field, many of whom lacked Pauline Baynes’ subtlety and sympathy for the material.

Pauline Baynes and J.R.R. Tolkien

© R J Dent 2016

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Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille (10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French intellectual and writer working in literature, philosophy, and the history of art. His writings included novels, essays and poetry. His subjects included eroticism, mysticism and transgression.

His fiction includes:

Story of the Eye:

Story of the Eye (L’histoire de l’oeil) is a 1928 short novel that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers. It is narrated by an unnamed young man looking back on his exploits.

 

L’Abbé C:

L’Abbé C (1950) is a work of dark eroticism, centred on the relationship between two twentieth century brothers in a small French village, one of whom is a Catholic parish priest, while the other is a libertine. The novel explores issues of split subjectivity, existential angst and bad faith.

 

Blue of Noon:

Blue of Noon (Le Bleu du Ciel) is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. It is an erotic novella in which the narrator travels from city to city in a surreal nightmare, experiencing squalor, sadism and drunken encounters that culminate in incest and necrophilia. Bataille completed the work in 1935, but it was not published until 1957.

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man:

My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man’s sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Madame Edwarda is the story of a prostitute who calls herself God, and The Dead Man, published in 1964 after Bataille’s death, is a startling short tale of cruelty and desire.

His non-fiction includes:

Eroticism:

Eroticism is a collection of essays on taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality. Bataille examines these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey; and his subjects include prostitution, mythical ecstasy, cruelty, desire and sexuality.

Literature and Evil:

Literature and Evil is an extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, which begins with Bataille’s assertion that ‘Literature is not innocent.’ Bataille argues that only by acknowledging literature’s complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. The literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression.

Georges Bataille’s books are available at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=george+bataille

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On Translating Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal into English – by R J Dent

One of the frustrations, the challenges, the problems – and probably the joys – of translating Baudelaire’s poetry is choosing the correct idiom to translate into.

Taking the words, sentences, phrases, lines, from the language of one country and translating them into the corresponding or equivalent language of another country is the type of work that can be done by almost anyone.

However, choosing the absolutely perfect cultural, social, geographical, spatial, historical, temporal and linguistic framework to put the translated words onto is another matter entirely, and will very much depend on the translator’s intentions and the receptive vocabulary of the proposed readership.

And when it’s poetry that is being translated, the task becomes even more complicated; the problems suddenly multiply. Read more…

R J Dent says: ‘I found translating Charles Baudelaire’s influential poetry collection Les Fleurs du Mal from French into modern English to be a rewarding, but challenging experience. This essay outlines some of the challenges and joys of the translation process.’

 R J Dent’s English translation of The Flowers of Evil is available at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flowers-Evil-Artificial-Paradise-Nocturnal/dp/0979984777/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

 

On Translating Baudelaire

Copyright © R J Dent (2007 & 2016)

 

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The Blood Delirium: The Vampire in 19th Century European Literature

 

‘R J Dent’s translations are fresh with an exciting raw sexual edge…’ (Candice Black)

 

The Blood Delirium is a definitive collection of 19th century European literature in which the vampire or vampirism – both embodied and atmospheric – is featured or evoked. Twenty-three seminal works by classic European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to proto-Surrealism and beyond, in a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror.

 

The Blood Delirium contains a detailed introduction (by editor Candice Black) which not only examines these texts and their meaning, but which also charts the literary and cultural climate in which the new cult of the vampire was allowed to flourish.

 

The Blood Delirium includes texts by Bram Stoker, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, J.M. Rymer, Charles Baudelaire, Le Comte de Lautréamont, Paul Féval, Maurice Rollinat, Guy de Maupassant, Count Stenbock, Jean Lorrain, Théophile Gautier, Charles Nodier, John Polidori, J.K. Huysmans, Charlotte Brontë, Ivan Turgenev, Jan Neruda, Augustus Hare, Cyprien Berard and Léon Bloy.

 

Several of the texts in The Blood Delirium are translated by R J Dent into English for the very first time, including those by Cyprien Bérard, Paul Féval, and Maurice Rollinat.

 

 

The Blood Delirium is the definitive collection for literate vampire-lovers.

 

The Blood Delirium is available from:

 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Blood-Delirium-European-Literature/dp/0983884285

 

or from:

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Delirium-The-Candice-Black/dp/0983884285

 

 

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Sade: Sex and Death – The Divine Marquis and the Surrealists (translated by R J Dent)

 

SADE: SEX and DEATH

The Divine Marquis and the Surrealists

Edited by Candice Black

Cover Art: René Magritte – La Gâcheuse (The Bungler) 1935

Translated into English by R J Dent

 

“SADE IS SURREALIST IN SADISM”

André Breton, Surrealist Manifesto (1924)

 

The Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), best known for his violent, erotic novels, such as 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, was also one of the key inspirational figures identified by André Breton in his Surrealist Manifestos. De Sade’s importance to the Surrealists and their close affiliates is reflected in the sheer volume of art and writing dedicated to, or inspired by, his life, philosophy, and writings. Sade documents this body of Surrealist work, including many key texts and bizarre and erotic images never before assembled in one volume.  Included in Sade: Sex and Death are more than fifty rarely seen transgressive illustrations by some of the most famous names associated with Surrealism, including Dalí, Hans Bellmer, Magritte, André Masson, and Man Ray. The book also features analytical texts by writers of the period such as Bataille, Breton, Bunuel, Eluard, and Klossowski.

 

Also included is the first-ever English translation (by R J Dent) of ‘The Divine Marquis’ by Guillaume Apollinaire, which was the first modernist appraisal of Sade and remains one of the best concise biographies of its subject, and “Sade and the Roman Noir” by scholar Maurice Heine, in which Heine posits Sade as inventor of the gothic novel. Putting the works in context is an extensive history by Candice Black that details the relationship between the Surrealists and Sade.

 

The Marquis de Sade was one of the key figures identified by André Breton in his Surrealist Manifestos as inspirational to the whole Surrealist movement. Sade’s importance to the Surrealists and their close affiliates is reflected in the sheer volume of their art and writing dedicated to, or inspired by, his life, philosophy and work.

 

Sade: Sex and Death documents this body of work, and features many key texts as well as a host of bizarre and erotic Surrealist images never before assembled in one volume.

 

Including texts, paintings, photography and drawings by: Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Bataille, Hans Bellmer, André Breton, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Robert Desnos , Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Maurice Heine, Valentine Hugo, Pierre Klossowski, Felix Labisse, René Magritte, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Man Ray, Toyen, Clovis Trouille and others.

 

CONTENTS

 

Candice Black: Sade and Surrealism: An Illustrated History

Guillaume Apollinaire: The Divine Marquis (Trans. R J Dent)

Georges Bataille: The Use Value of De Sade (Trans. Allan Stoekl)    

Maurice Heine: De Sade and the Gothic Novel (Trans. R J Dent)

Pierre Klossowski: A Destructive Philosophy

Andre Masson: Notes on the Sadistic Imagination (Trans. R J Dent)        

Paul Eluard: Sade: A Revolutionary Intelligence (Trans. R J Dent)

 

SOLAR EROTIK ARCHIVE:

 

SADE: SEX and DEATH

The Divine Marquis and the Surrealists

Edited by Candice Black

Translated into English by R J Dent

ISBN-13: 978-0-9820464-9-4

 

Available from:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sade-Divine-Marquis-Surrealists-Archive/dp/0982046499

http://www.amazon.com/Sade-Divine-Marquis-Surrealists-Archive/dp/0982046499

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo11334062.html

http://www.solarbooks.org/solar-titles/sadesexanddeath.html

 

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Jeremy Reed’s e-books

Several of Jeremy Reed’s novels, poetry collections, short story collections and non-fiction works are now available as e-books. 

 

 

Available e-book novels include:

 

• When the Whip Comes Down – a novel about De Sade

 

                 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/When-The-Whip-Comes-Down-ebook/dp/B00HYOU3FC/ref=sr_1_13?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1392860820&sr=1-13&keywords=jeremy+reed

  

• Isidore – a novel about the Comte de Lautréamont

                  

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Isidore-novel-Lautr%C3%A9amont-Jeremy-Reed-ebook/dp/B00IJHW92S/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1392860780&sr=1-1&keywords=jeremy+reed

  

• The Grid – a novel about Marlowe and Shakespeare in the 21^st Century

    

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Grid-Jeremy-Reed-ebook/dp/B00GQDQJ4Q/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1392860820&sr=1-6&keywords=jeremy+reed

 

• The Pleasure Château – a sadeian/gothic/erotic trilogy

 

                  

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pleasure-Chateau-Jeremy-Reed-ebook/dp/B00IC7DSPM/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1392860820&sr=1-4&keywords=jeremy+reed

 

• Here Comes the Nice – a novel about the London Mod scene

 

                  

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Here-Comes-Nice-Jeremy-Reed-ebook/dp/B006AWYJDQ/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1392860820&sr=1-3&keywords=jeremy+reed

 

Available e-book non-fiction titles include:

 

• Delirium  – An Interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delirium-Jeremy-Reed-ebook/dp/B00J18O814/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1395088862&sr=1-1&keywords=delirium+jeremy+reed

 

Available e-book short story collections include:

 

• Red Hot Lipstick – a collection of erotic short stories

 

                  

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Hot-Lipstick-Jeremy-Reed-ebook/dp/B00G9ITMJM/ref=sr_1_17?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1392860820&sr=1-17&keywords=jeremy+reed

 

Available poetry collection titles include:

 

• Nothing But A Star

 

                  

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-But-Star-Jeremy-Reed-ebook/dp/B00H4IMBV2/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1392860820&sr=1-2&keywords=jeremy+reed

 

• The Big Orange Day

 

                   

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Big-Orange-Jeremy-Reed-ebook/dp/B00408AX9Q/ref=sr_1_9?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1392860820&sr=1-9&keywords=jeremy+reed

 

• Exploding Into Colour

 

                   

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exploding-Into-Colour-Jeremy-Reed-ebook/dp/B007IW106G/ref=sr_1_11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1392860820&sr=1-11&keywords=jeremy+reed

 

Jeremy Reed’s Amazon page is:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeremy-Reed/e/B001H9PY18/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1

Jeremy Reed’s website is:

http://www.jeremyreed.co.uk/

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