De Sade is supposed to have written The 120 Days of Sodom in tiny handwriting on a single long roll of paper, while imprisoned in the Bastille. It tells of four men--"libertines," De Sade calls them--who abduct a group of young teenagers, 8 boys and 8 girls, whom they take to a remote castle in order to subject them to an ordeal of humiliation, ( Read more... )