by Nikolaj Frobenius · Actes Sud · tapa dura · ISBN 9782742720057
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«Le valet de Sade» is the novel by Nikolaj Frobenius published by Actes Sud in hardcover (273 pages, in French).
In the eighteenth century, Latour is born in Honfleur, the result of a rape, and grows up without feeling pain. After training with a taxidermist, Latour settles in the underworld of Paris, where his obsession with anatomy leads him to kill and dissect. Latour ends up in the service of the Marquis de Sade, whose valet and accomplice he becomes.
The translation from Norwegian is by Vincent Fournier and the work was published on November 3, 1998.
For readers of literary fiction seeking a dark historical novel, with echoes of Patrick Süskind's «Perfume».
