LE CORPS CHEZ SADE – L’HUMOUR NOIR
THE BODY AT SADE - BLACK HUMOR

Summary/Abstract: In most cases humour is associated with a fun context, optimism and joy. The literature of the eighteenth century, in particular libertinage, offers us another perspective of humour: the black humour with the irony and sarcasm that it enfolds. Oriented in the majority of situations towards the victim and the events that she/he has to experience or to live, black humour is an integral and strong important part in the psychology of the libertine. Sade, the author who put his mark on the literature of the century, has built in Justine a series of scenes having as main binding the matter of humour. In an era of contrasts, shadows and enlightenment, black humour completes the panoply of features of the emblematic character for the Enlightenment: the libertine.

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