Dialogue entre un prêtre et un moribond

Synopsis of Dialogue entre un prêtre et un moribond

«Dialogue entre un prêtre et un moribond» is the philosophical dialogue by the Marquis de Sade, in a Mille et une nuits paperback (31 pages, in French).

A dying libertine receives a visit from a priest and, instead of confessing, defends a materialist and hedonist philosophy: he rejects the sacraments, Christian morality and the idea of God, and maintains that nature and pleasure guide existence.

It was written in 1782, during Sade's imprisonment at the Château de Vincennes, and this French edition reproduces the complete text.

For readers of eighteenth-century philosophy, French literature and libertine thought, and for those seeking classics that question religion.