Justine

This Justine she had like the all time worst luck, even worse than this girl Tiffany that I know who broke her leg on the first day of a three week ski holiday, it sounds so sad unless you know her in which case it practically proves there's a God right there. But anyway. I was reading this book at......more

Great book, but i really don't care for translations. Let's see, something I took from this book: Believe in God and a bunch of people are going to rape you, take advantage of you, tie you to a tree and let the dogs get you, while your sister becomes a whore and marries a rich guy and gets all the wo......more

*4,5 out of 10 spiky stars I suspect that I expected to find something similar to smutty contemporary sado-masochistic literature, and was therefore quite pleasantly surprised stylistically speaking. Having watched documentaries about De Sade which depicted him as a dribbling sot in an institution fo......more

It is precisely the Misfortunes of Virtue which Sade illuminates in Justine. Virtue, personified in Justine, is perpetually confronted by misfortune, and subdued by an omnipresent force, which, as expected from the Marquis, drips animalistic eroticism. Justine is, inarguably, a novel on depravity, b......more

Ante todo quiero aclarar que Justine no es una novela erótica y si alguien realmente se excita con las escenas de sexo explícitas del libro entonces tiene un nivel de perversión igual o peor que los personajes descriptos. Justine es un tratado filosófico sobre la virtud versus una sociedad corroída......more