Aline and Valcour

Aline and Valcour

File:Aline et Valcour - Illustration - Project Gutenberg eText 17707.jpg "All the parts of this beautiful body were formed by the hand of the graces." Illustration from a 1795 edition of Aline et Valcour
Author	Marquis de Sade
Country	France
Language	French
Genre	Epistolary novel
Publication date	1795
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Aline et Valcour; ou, Le Roman philosophique is an epistolary novel by the Marquis de Sade. It contrasts a brutal African kingdom with a South Pacific island paradise known as Tamoé and led by the philosopher-king Zamé.

Sade wrote the book while incarcerated in the Bastille in the 1780s. Published in 1795, it was the first of Sade's books published under his true name.

Bibliography

The book was translated into English, German, Spanish and Japanese. An English version can be found in Selected writings of De Sade (New York 1954), translated by Leonard de Saint-Yves.

An essay titled "Observations on Aline and Valcour" by Alice Laborde appeared in the collection Sade, his ethics and rhetoric by Colette Verger Michael, New York 1989.

Blank darkness: Africanist discourse in French by Christopher L Miller (Chicago 1985) contains a chapter titled "No one's novel: Sade's Aline et Valcour".

External links

• Aline et Valcour, tome 1 (in French) from Project Gutenberg
• Aline et Valcour, tome 2 (in French) from Project Gutenberg
• Aline et Valcour, ou le roman philosophique. Écrit à la Bastille un an avant la Révolution de France, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, a Paris, Chez la Veuve Girouard, Libraire maison Égalité, Galerie de Bois, n°. 196, 1795.