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Aline and Valcour, Vol. 2: or, the Philosophical Novel

by Marquis de Sade

Letters, adventure, and moral conflict on the eve of revolution

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Letters, adventure, and moral conflict on the eve of revolution

Set in the shadow of the French Revolution, this volume uses an epistolary structure to bring together adventure, libertine fiction, and a novel of feelings. Its conflicts center on virtuous lives disrupted by scheming, abduction, and seduction, with love, morality, and religion under pressure. The description also points to journeys into imagined lands in Africa and the South Seas, including Butua; its final sentence cuts off before completing the account of those settings. The result is a work that links intimate and ethical dilemmas with travel and social upheaval.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Those interested in epistolary fiction that combines several literary genres
  • Readers exploring historical erotic fiction and the Marquis de Sade’s writing
  • Readers interested in fiction set against the backdrop of the French Revolution

Themes

French RevolutionEpistolary fictionAdventure and libertinismLove and moralityImagined lands

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Book overview

Set against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the multiple themes that would become the hallmark of his far more sulfurous works.

 

This epistolary workcombines genres, interweaving the adventure story with the libertine novel and the novel of feelings to create a compelling, unitary tale. Turbulence disrupts virtuous lives when corrupt schemers work incestuous designs upon them that don't stop with abduction and seduction -- as crime imposes tragic obstacles to love and delivers harsh threats to morality and religion.

 

Embedded within Aline and Valcour are sojourns in unknown lands in Africa and the South Seas: Butua, a cannibalistic dystopia, and Tamo

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