When Bataille writes about Sade he is never writing only about Sade but also about himself. He is concerned with two dominant reactions to Sade: the violent rejection of Sade’s works and the admiration of Sade’s works. The first reaction is probably more prevalent and more familiar, so familiar that Simone de Beauvoir could write an article entitled ‘Must we Burn Sade?’ in 1951. However, Sade has also had his admirers and this was particularly true of when Bataille was writing. The surrealists had rediscovered Sade, along with Lautréamont, as a proto-surrealist.
When Bataille writes about Sade he is never writing only about Sade but also about himself. He is concerned with two dominant reactions to Sade: the violent rejection of Sade’s works and the admiration of Sade’s works. The first reaction is probably more prevalent and more familiar, so familiar that Simone de Beauvoir could write an article entitled ‘Must we Burn Sade?’ in 1951. However, Sade has also had his admirers and this was particularly true of when Bataille was writing. The surrealists had rediscovered Sade, along with Lautréamont, as a proto-surrealist.
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