L’IMAGINAIRE DU CORPS DANS LE LIBERTINAGE Corps extérieur-corps intérieur
THE IMAGINARY OF THE BODY IN LIBERTINAGE Outside body-inner body

Summary/Abstract: A century of change and research, the eighteenth century is presided by new ideas and perspectives. The liberty of body and mind is the central idea of the Enlightenment, our work attempting to present the link between the inner and the physical body, analyzing these concepts in two of the most illustrative for this direction in the literature of the century: ‘Ernestine, Sweden short story’ and ‘Oxtiern or The Misfortunes of Libertinage’. A remarkable figure of the eighteenth-century French literature, DAF de Sade is even nowadays one of the most controversial libertine novelists. His literary activity presents an anatomic vision of the human being, exposing a libertine philosophy characteristic along his entire work. So, all his characters are divided into two typologies specific for the libertinage: the victim and the libertine, but Sade’s libertinage is not a typical one. Governed by his atheism, Sade punishes his victims at all levels: social, moral and religious. What makes his works unique is not the direction that he chooses to orientate his writing to, but the antithesis between the ways he exposes the libertinage. Even if in most of his novels Sade presents his libertine creed, he reestablishes the connection; humanity and religion, body and soul, pleading for equality, right cause and virtue in the volume Crimes of Love.

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