The Sadeian Woman av Angela Carter

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<B>'The tone is one of intellectual relish ... rational ... refined ... witty' <I>NEW STATESMAN</I><BR/><BR/>'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, <I>GUARDIAN </I><BR/><BR/>'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, <I>INDEPENDENT</I></B><BR/><BR/><I>'Sexuality is power'</I> - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields.<BR/><BR/> But now Sade has met his match. <BR/><BR/> With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his extreme imagination, and transforms them into symbols of our time - the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred