Paris, Le Terrain Vague, 326 pages.
Dedicated to Christiane Rochefort, whose “Repos du guerrier” was burned in a Catholic South American state.
Book’s main subjects : Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740-1814) ; Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, (1836-1895) ; L’Arétin (1492-1556) ; Nicolas-Edme Rétif de La Bretonne (1734-1806). Many of the great figures of recent centuries are also evoked.