Judge Deceived, A

by the Marquis de Sade

A Judge Deceived is a novella written by the Marquis de Sade while he was a prisoner in the Bastille, but which was never published during his lifetime. It was first published in 1926 in his short story collection, Stories, Tales and Fables.

According to Sade’s footnote, A Judge Deceived ‘was completed on July 16, 1787, at 10 o’clock in the evening’.

A Judge Deceived is a rare novella in which a marriage is arranged between the aging Judge de Fontanis and a young woman, Mademoiselle de Téroze, who (unbeknownst to him) is in love with someone else.

The young woman and her brother-in-law (the Marquis d’Olincourt) perpetrate a series of cruel practical jokes, humiliating hoaxes, and elaborate schemes in order to deceive the judge and stop him from consummating the marriage.

A Judge Deceived is an artfully-written and beautifully-structured literary attack on the judiciary and arranged marriage, and one of Sade’s most savagely satirical tales.

A Judge Deceived is now available in R J Dent’s modern English translation. It is published by New Urge Editions as #24 in the Pocket Erotica series.

Title: A Judge Deceived
Author: The Marquis de Sade
Translator: R J Dent
Language: English
Publisher: ‎New Urge Editions / Pocket Erotica Series
ISBN-13: 979-8986922430
Publication Date: January 28, 2023
Format: Paperback
Pages: 174
Item Weight: ‎5.9 ounces (167.262 grams)
Dimensions: 4 inches x 0.44 inches x 6 inches (10.16cm x 1.1176cm x 15.24cm)

Book Details: https://blackscatbooks.com/2023/01/28/sades-satirical-novella/

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