Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du vice

Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded

Author

Marquis de Sade

Language

French

Year

1797

Country

France

Genre

Novel

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Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded is a Libertine horror novel written by the Marquis de Sade and published 1797–1801, accompanying de Sade's 1797 version of his novel Justine. While Justine, Juliette's sister, was a virtuous woman who consequently encountered nothing but despair and abuse, Juliette is an amoral nymphomaniac murderer who is successful and happy. As many other of his works, Juliette follows a pattern of violently pornographic scenes followed by long treatises on a broad range of philosophical topics, including theology, morality, aesthetics, naturalism and also Sade's dark, fatalistic view of world metaphysics.