Not just Free but Flesh. Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Approach to Sade’s Life and Work KU Leuven
© 2014 The British Society for Phenomenology. The decades immediately following the SecondWorldWar saw extensive interest in the literary novels of Sade. Compared with the Sade studies of Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan, and Gilles Deleuze, Simone de Beauvoir offers a unique perspective in her essay Must We Burn De Sade?. Indeed, unlike her contemporaries, Beauvoir focuses not only on Sade's prose but also on Sade's life and the relationship ...