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Document Details : Title: 'De grootste aller pornografen' Subtitle: Markies de Sade door de ogen van twee Vlaamse essayisten Author(s): KESTELOOT, Lander Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 66 Issue: 3 Date: 2024 Pages: 223-254 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.66.3.3293988 Abstract : Around the mid-twentieth century, the works of the controversial French author D.A.F. Marquis de Sade gained renewed attention in Dutch literature. It is my hypothesis that the figure of Sade enables writers to weigh values – ethical and aesthetic – against each other. In this article, I offer an ethical-narratological reading of the essays on Sade by René Gysen and Jan Walravens, two Flemish authors associated with the neo-avant-garde. The article seeks to answer the following questions: which values do these authors associate with Sade? Which rhetorical devices are used for this purpose? How do the authors relate Sade to their own contemporary context and to their poetics? In this way, we gain a deeper understanding of the reciprocal interaction between literature, society and ethics during a transformative period in Dutch cultural history. |
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