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KLOSSOWSKI (Pierre). 3 handwritten letters, 1 letter with handwritten additions, and a corrected typescript, on Barbey d’Aurevilly and sadism. Paris, December 1969 – February 1970. 7¼ pages, in-4 or in-8 format (a small tear with no loss of text). – 4 December 1969: On returning from the exhibition of his drawings in Rome, he found the manuscript of his correspondent’s thesis on Barbey d’Aurevilly: We had endured a most difficult and trying summer – my mother died that autumn – and for a long time I had been unable to maintain any continuity in my own work… - 8 February 1970: He withholds his thesis to reflect on one or two objections concerning ‘the method applied’ - 10 February: A lengthy critique of the study on Barbey d’Aurevilly and sadism, focusing on its presentation, the author’s ignorance of the work of Gilles Deleuze, and the very term ‘sadism’: It is, originally, the perverse lingering in the voluptuous emotion drawn from the instinct of propagation, which separates it and turns it against this gregarious instinct and, as ‘sterile’ jouissance, and therefore anti-herd, flourishes in the manifold ramifications of integral monstrosity… - 17 February. He returns the manuscript, with precise critical notes, and points out: The passage you were kind enough to quote from my introduction to *The Married Priest* (concerning the motif of the ‘inviolable virgin’) is implicitly refuted in the foreword to the reprint of my *Sade (the scoundrel-philosopher)*...
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About the sale Eros & Thanatos – Selected extracts from the L-D S library
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Auction time 10/07/2026 at 2:00 PM
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