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'Aline et Valcour; ou, Le Roman philosophique' is an epistolary novel by the Marquis de Sade. It contrasts a brutal African kingdom, Butua, with a South Pacific island paradise known as Tamo and led by the philosopher-king Zam.

Sade wrote the book while incarcerated in the Bastille in the 1780s. Published in 1795, it was the first of Sade's books published under his true name.

Bibliography



The book was translated into English, German, Spanish and Japanese.

An essay titled "Observations on Aline and Valcour" by Alice Laborde appeared in the collection 'Sade, his ethics and rhetoric' by Colette Verger Michael, New York 1989.

'Blank darkness: Africanist discourse in French' by Christopher L Miller (Chicago 1985) contains a chapter titled "No one's novel: Sade's Aline et Valcour".


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