The Crimes of Love
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Les Crimes de l'amour, Nouvelles héroïques et tragiques (Eng: The Crimes of Love : Heroic and tragic Tales) is a collection of short stories by Sade first an published in 1799. It is notable because of its preface, Une Idée sur les romans, 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"
He also said “It is Richardson and Fielding who have taught us that only the profound study of the heart of man . . . can inspire the novelist.” And goes on: “If after twelve or fifteen volumes [of Clarissa] the immortal Richardson had virtuously ended by converting Lovelace and having him peacefully marry Clarissa, would you . . . have shed the delicious tears which it won from every feeling reader?”
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)
