Name: El Marques de Sade (in Spanish)
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Author: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9788496875524

Type

Physical Book

Author

Simone de Beauvoir

Publisher

Editorial Doble J, S.L.

Year

2011

Language

Spanish

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN13

9788496875524

Edited in

España

Synopsis "El Marques de Sade (in Spanish)"

"Sade ha intentado convertir su destino psicofisiológico en una elección moral. Y de ese acto, mediante el cual asumía la responsabilidad de su apartamiento, pretendió hacer un ejemplo y un llamado: es allí donde su aventura asume tan amplia significación humana. Podemos, sin renegar de la individualidad, satisfacer nuestras aspiraciones a lo universal? O es solamente mediante el sacrificio de nuestras diferencias que logramos integrarnos en la colectividad? Este problema nosatañe a todos.En el caso de Sade, las diferencias son llevadas hasta el escándalo y la magnitud de su tarea literaria nos revela con cuanto apasionamiento ansiaba ser aceptado por la comunidad humana. El conflicto que ningún individuo puede eludir sin mentirse, se presenta en él en su forma más patética. Aquí reside la paradoja y en cierto modo el triunfo de Sade: en el hecho de que, por haberse obstinado en sus singularidades, nos ayuda a definir el drama humano en su generalidad."

Simone de Beauvoir

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Simone de Beauvoir (Paris, January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was one of the most influential philosophers, writers, and essayists of the 20th century, a key figure in existentialism and an international reference in feminism. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she maintained a famous intellectual and personal relationship that would mark her life and thought. She published fundamental works such as The Second Sex (1949), considered a pillar of modern feminism, in which she analyzes the social construction of women from an existentialist perspective, and novels like She Came to Stay (1943) and The Mandarins (1954), the latter awarded the prestigious Goncourt Prize.

Throughout her career, De Beauvoir combined philosophical reflection, social analysis, and autobiography in more than twenty books, among which stand out Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, The Prime of Life, The Woman Destroyed, and Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre. She was internationally recognized with distinctions such as the Jerusalem Prize (1975) and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1978), and left an essential legacy in the fight for gender equality and human rights. Her thought and activism continue to inspire generations of readers, intellectuals, and freedom advocates.

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