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Florville and Courval: A Classic Tale of Fate, Confession, and Forbidden Desire
Hardcover
EroticaClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515435822
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A confession before marriage becomes a descent into fate, guilt, secrecy, and catastrophe in this compact tale by the Marquis de Sade. When Courval asks Florville to become his wife, she insists that he first hear the story of her life. What begins as a gesture of honesty soon turns into a disturbing sequence of revelations, as Florville recounts the sins, accidents, passions, and hidden connections that have shaped her past. Each disclosure tightens the story's fatal pattern until the tale arrives at one of Sade's bleakly ironic reversals.
First published in 1800 as part of Sade's Les Crimes de l'amour, Florville and Courval belongs to the author's shorter fiction rather than to the notorious scale of The 120 Days of Sodom or Justine. It is a dark moral tale of sexual transgression, fatalism, family secrecy, and psychological self-exposure, showing Sade not only as a scandalous libertine writer but as a craftsman of suspense, reversal, and philosophical cruelty. For readers of eighteenth-century French literature, Gothic-tinged fiction, erotic classics, and the literature of taboo, this brief work offers a concentrated example of Sade's fascination with confession, punishment, and the fragile boundary between innocence and guilt.
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