Co jest właściwie jasnego w przedmiocie: Sade
Is Anything Really Clear in the Subject of de Sade?

Summary/Abstract: Locked in a prison cell, the Marquis de Sade could only express his passion, fuelled by hate and anger towards the legal system, on paper. One document was enough to convict him for his libertine approach to life which was perceived as a threat to public morality. From that moment on de Sade, in complete isolation, gave his heart and soul to literature filling his novels with eroticism and evil. His imagination rejected the natural limitations of the human body: the proliferations of his pen made “ten orgasms erase the cliché of one” and satisfied his desire which in reality could not have withstood so many unfulfilled urges. De Sade created a peculiar mechanism of malice excited by the very thought of the potential that evil included and by reproducing it in great quantities on paper. “De Sade becomes the bat of the metaphysics of passion,” says Lech Bukowski. His separation from natural light worsened his sight, but his isolation from everyday noises sharpened his hearing. With his mind’s eyes he saw what went on outside the prison walls and listened for the sounds of everyday life, in which all the pleasures were taken for granted. The claws he grew allowed him to reach the “entrails of the society which imprisoned him”. This is how de Sade became the metaphysicist of passion. His pulsating eroticism provoked people to insult him. Many of these insults, e.g. “the bookkeeper of arses” or “the pimp of reason” were of undisputable value since they indicated a combination of calculating intellect with an element of sensuality: de Sade did, in fact, mix erotic scenes with reflection. De Sades’ faith left no room for God. Kneeling and beating his chest in penance was absurd because what religion considered to be flawed, the metaphysicist of passion considered a strength of human nature. Physicality was the interpretation of his philosophy. Like Demiurge, de Sade created characters, but unlike him, he refused to remain silent.

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