The Crimes of Love
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Les Crimes de l'amour, Nouvelles héroïques et tragiques (Eng: Crimes of Love) is a collection of short stories by Sade first an published in 1799. It is notable because of its preface, which features Sade's theories on the 'modern novel':
- "The modern novel is born with Richardson, Fielding, Rousseau and Prévost. It then procedes to the The Monk and Ann Radcliffe"
Les Crimes de l'amour is also a French film edited from Le Rideau cramoisi (1953), directed by Mina de Venghel and starring Alain Cuny, Maurice Barry and Maurice Clavel.
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Table of contents
- Une Idée sur les romans
- Juliette et Raunai, ou la Conspiration d'Amboise
- La Double Épreuve
- Miss Henriette Stralson, ou les Effets du désespoir
- Faxelange, ou les Torts de l'ambition
- Florville et Courval, ou le Fatalisme
- Rodrigue, ou la Tour enchantée
- Laurence et Antonio
- Ernestine
- Dorgeville, ou le Criminel par vertu
- La Comtesse de Sancerre, ou la Rivalle de sa fille
- Eugénie de Franval
- Postface
Review by Villeterque
October 22, 1800 - In Le Journal des arts, des sciences et de littérature, an article by the critic Villeterque appears, violently attacking Sade's Les Crimes de l'amour, which has just been published. In the article Villeterque refers to Sade as the author of Justine.
See also
Do not confuse with
- Un crime d'amour (1885)
