The Marquise de Sade Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Publisher: One Page | Liaoning People's Publishing House

【Editor's recommendation】

※Mishima's most acclaimed new play, "The Marquise de Sade", was later adapted into a movie by Ingmar Bergman

※ Licking the imaginary THAAD in the sweet and fishy doomsday sentiment

The Marquis himself does not appear in this work from beginning to end, and the protagonists are six women. In Mishima's own words, it is "female Sade theory", that is, "Sade theory of the masochists" and "imaginary Sade theory". Mishima's Sade is a dark Sade that is intoxicated with sensuality, and it is a Sade that has become "the twilight of the gods".

※The more despicable, cruel, immoral, and filthy people and things are, the more they should be described in elegant language.

A magnificent world of the script: "the fragrance of Rococo erotic literature, the fragrance rising from behind the blood and torture" is restored on the stage of the new play with "the abstractness and accuracy of language".

【Content introduction】

“Even the pain of hell can be turned into a rose by a woman’s hands and endurance.”

"The Marquise de Sade" describes how the Marquise de Sade remained faithful to her husband throughout her life after he was imprisoned, and how she worked hard to rescue her husband from prison. However, when the old Sade was freed, she suddenly and resolutely broke up with him.

This mystery hides something real but incomprehensible in human nature. With Madame Sade as the center, the six female characters in the play represent chastity, morality, God, emotion, innocence, and the people. They move in an intersecting manner like planets, and the conflict between the concepts of women's elegance, laziness, chastity, and indulgence forms the climax of the play.

Mishima Yukio

(1925-1970), the pride of traditional Japanese literature, was honored as the "Hemingway" of Japan and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature many times. Donald Keene, an American authority on Japanese literature, believes that Mishima is "a genius writer with no equal in the world." This outlier in the Japanese literary world worshipped martyrdom-like death throughout his life. In his short life, he tried his best to interpret the diversity of beauty with words.

Chen Dewen

Born in Pi County, Jiangsu Province, he is a professor at Nanjing University. He graduated from the Department of Oriental Languages ​​and Literature of Peking University with a major in Japanese in 1965. In 1985, he went to Waseda University for study and research. He is currently a full-time professor at Aichi Bunkyo University in Japan. He has translated and published many famous works by famous Japanese writers.