![]() The influence of Sade's Jesuit training in rhetorical debate is the mainspring of this brilliant dramatic essay, which, as the title suggests, is not so much theatre as philosophical dialogue. is probably the most incisive and, at the same time, the most artistically satisfying. Of all the direct expressions of atheism in Sade's work, the Dialogue. The work expresses the author's atheism by having a dying man (a libertine) tell a priest about what he views as the mistakes of a pious life.Īccording to John Phillips, Emeritus Professor of French Literature and Culture at London Metropolitan University: It was subsequently published in English in 1927 by Pascal Covici in a limited, hand-numbered edition of 650 copies. It is one of the earliest known written works from de Sade to be dated with certainty, and was first published in 1926 together with an edition of Historiettes, Contes et Fabliaux (written originally in 1788). ![]() Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man (original French: Dialogue entre un prêtre et un moribond) is a dialogue written by the Marquis de Sade while incarcerated at the Château de Vincennes in 1782. ![]()
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