Which Authors Cite The 120 Days Of Sade As Influence?

2025-10-22 10:01:32 131

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Flynn
Flynn
2025-10-23 18:23:50
I'll be frank: I love tracing how a notorious book travels into mainstream thought. 'The 120 Days of Sodom' has been claimed, discussed, or used as a touchstone by a surprising group: Georges Bataille and Roland Barthes dug into its philosophy and language; Michel Foucault invoked Sade while charting sexuality and power; Gilles Deleuze used him to think about desire’s architecture. On the creative side Jean Genet channels Sadean reversals, and Pasolini turned the novel’s structure into his film 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'. Even noisy figures like William S. Burroughs and Henry Miller felt liberated by Sade’s refusal to play nice. It’s wild how a book that scandalized its century ended up shaping so many different ones—still gives me chills.
Evan
Evan
2025-10-23 22:04:41
I've spent a lot of time thinking about who actually cites 'The 120 Days of Sodom' as an influence, and some names come up again and again in essays, prefaces, and interviews. Georges Bataille and Roland Barthes are frequent reference points: Bataille treats Sade almost like a philosopher of excess, while Barthes examines how Sade plays with systems of signification. Michel Foucault is another heavyweight—his studies on power and sexuality bring Sade into a larger history of discourse.

On the literary-creative front, Jean Genet’s themes of betrayal, criminality, and eroticism echo Sadean notes, and Pier Paolo Pasolini explicitly transposed the book’s logic into cinema with 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'. Gilles Deleuze uses Sade as a foil when mapping out desire and cruelty, and modern transgressive writers like William S. Burroughs and Henry Miller have admitted, at least implicitly, to learning from Sade’s brutality and freedom. For anyone curious about how influence works, this is a great example of a text that migrated from scandal to serious fuel for theory and art.
Brody
Brody
2025-10-25 01:06:00
Plenty of well-known thinkers and writers have acknowledged Sade’s '120 Days of Sade' as an influence on how they approached taboo, power, and language. Georges Bataille is usually the first name people cite: his fascination with erotic transgression owes a lot to Sade, and you can trace that through Bataille’s fiction and essays. Michel Foucault likewise used Sade to explore the sociology of sex and power in 'History of Sexuality,' treating Sade as a crucial figure for modern sexuality debates.

Angela Carter engaged directly and critically with Sade in 'The Sadeian Woman,' turning his themes into a platform for feminist literary play. Jean Genet and Henry Miller also pointed to Sade when justifying novels that center crime, desire, and moral collapse. On the avant-garde side, Kathy Acker borrowed from Sade’s text, and Pasolini famously transposed the material to film in 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.' Beyond those, many contemporary writers and critics — sometimes controversially — invoke Sade when they want to talk about the limits of literature, which to me is both maddening and intriguing.
Quinn
Quinn
2025-10-26 08:04:11
If you're hoping for a compact roadmap through who’s named 'The 120 Days of Sodom' as an influence, I can give you a little guided tour from my bookshelf and brain.

Georges Bataille is a must-mention: he didn't treat Sade as mere shock value but as a crucible for thinking about transgression and the limits of experience. Roland Barthes also dug into Sade—his essay 'Sade, Fourier, Loyola' probes what Sade's work does to language and meaning. Michel Foucault repeatedly used Sade as a touchstone when mapping the relationship of sexuality, power, and discourse; his discussions helped rehabilitate Sade in modern intellectual history. Gilles Deleuze contrasted Sade and masochism in his writings on desire and structure, using Sade to think through cruelty and sovereignty.

On the creative side, Jean Genet admired the novel's radicalness and Pasolini famously turned its logic into the film 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'. Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs are two twentieth-century writers who wore Sade's influence on their sleeves, drawing on his transgressive frankness for their own boundary-pushing prose. Each of these figures treated Sade differently—some as philosopher, some as antiseptic mirror, some as provocation—and that variety is what keeps the dialogue with 'The 120 Days of Sodom' so alive for me.
Rachel
Rachel
2025-10-26 10:12:17
I want to give a slightly different spin: think of Sade not just as a novelist but as a provocateur whose echoes show up in both criticism and art. Philosophers and critics who explicitly cite 'The 120 Days of Sodom' include Georges Bataille—who treats Sade as an existential and ethical problem—plus Roland Barthes, who inspected the textual mechanics, and Michel Foucault, who folded Sade into his analyses of power, confession, and sexuality. Gilles Deleuze invoked Sade when dissecting structures of desire and cruelty.

Then there are creative artists who borrowed the book’s intensity: Jean Genet echoes Sade's themes of transgression and upside-down morality, and Pasolini directly adapted the book’s architecture into the film 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'. William S. Burroughs and Henry Miller, while stylistically distant, benefited from Sade’s permission to breach social taboos in the name of literary honesty. For me, that cross-pollination—philosophy, criticism, and raw fiction—is the most compelling part of Sade’s afterlife.
Peter
Peter
2025-10-27 17:29:56
I get a little giddy thinking about the chain of writers who kept nudging Sade into modern literature — his influence is way bigger and messier than people realize. Georges Bataille is the canonical first name most scholars point to: Bataille treated Sade not just as a purveyor of shock but as a thinker about limits, transgression, and the sacred/profane split. You can see Sade’s shadow in Bataille’s own 'Story of the Eye' and in his essays on eroticism and the sacred.

Beyond Bataille, the Surrealists (led by André Breton) openly revered Sade’s attack on bourgeois morality, and later thinkers like Michel Foucault put Sade at the center of debates on sexuality and power in works such as 'History of Sexuality.' Angela Carter famously wrote 'The Sadeian Woman,' a direct critical engagement that re-reads female figures in Sade’s work and shows how later fiction can twist his material into feminist critique or reclamation. Jean Genet and Henry Miller are two novelists who explicitly acknowledged Sade’s influence on their willingness to make criminality and eroticism literary subjects.

If you’re tracing a lineage, also look at later transgressive writers and experimental feminists: Kathy Acker borrowed and rewrote Sadean passages; Pier Paolo Pasolini adapted the premise into film with 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.' Even contemporary controversial novelists — people like Michel Houellebecq — nod to Sade when exploring sex, power, and nihilism. All those conversations make Sade feel less like a single book and more like a provocation that keeps getting picked up, reworked, and argued over. I find that messy, uncomfortable inheritance fascinating — it keeps literature lively in a slightly unsettling way.
Ella
Ella
2025-10-28 00:19:31
Way too many people reduce that work to sleaze, but loads of major writers actually pointed to '120 Days of Sade' as a source of ideas rather than just shock value. Georges Bataille is the obvious heavyweight; he treated Sade almost philosophically and folded Sadean transgression into his own thinking about eroticism. Michel Foucault also put Sade on the map in modern theory, using him as a case study about sexuality, discourse, and the body in 'History of Sexuality.'

On the creative side, Angela Carter did something brilliant with Sade in 'The Sadeian Woman' — she didn’t just admire him, she interrogated and reimagined his motifs. Jean Genet and Henry Miller wrote with a similar willingness to make crime and taboo central to aesthetic experience, openly acknowledging Sade’s courage in demolishing moral boundaries. Later experimental writers like Kathy Acker used direct appropriation and pastiche, taking Sadean passages and twisting them into postmodern collage. Filmmakers jumped in too; Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom' is basically a cinematic reckoning with the same themes. So if you’re asking who cites that work as influence, it spans theorists, novelists, poets, and even directors — it isn’t a small list, and that’s part of what keeps debates about it alive.
Nora
Nora
2025-10-28 19:40:20
Short and direct: several major 20th-century thinkers and writers engaged with or cited 'The 120 Days of Sodom' as an influence. Georges Bataille and Roland Barthes analyzed Sade critically; Michel Foucault used Sade to explore the ties between sexuality and power; Gilles Deleuze discussed Sade in relation to desire and cruelty. On the creative side, Jean Genet's work resonates with Sadean themes, Pier Paolo Pasolini adapted the concept into his film 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom', and transgressive novelists like Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs drew inspiration from Sade's unflinching approach. Each picked different parts of Sade—philosophy, language, erotic extremity—and that variety fascinates me.
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