Juliette (novel)

Juliette
Title page of 1968 translation by Austryn Wainhouse
AuthorThe Marquis de Sade
Original titleL'Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du vice
LanguageFrench
GenreLibertine, philosophical novel
Publication date
1797
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Preceded byLa Nouvelle Justine 
Followed byThe Crimes of Love (1800) 

Juliette is a novel written by the Marquis de Sade and published 17971801, accompanying de Sade's 1797 version of his novel Justine. While Justine, Juliette's sister, was a virtuous woman who consequently encountered nothing but despair and abuse, Juliette is an amoral nymphomaniac murderer who is successful and happy. The full title of the novel in the original French is L'Histoire de Juliette ou les Prospérités du vice, and the English title is "Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded" (versus "Justine, or Good Conduct Well-Chastised"). As many other of his works, Juliette follows a pattern of violently pornographic scenes followed by long treatises on a broad range of philosophical topics, including theology, morality, aesthetics, naturalism and also Sade's dark, fatalistic view of world metaphysics.