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The 120 days refer to a plan: over four months, four prostitutes (the "historians") will recite 150 sexual “passions” each, ranging from simple perversions to acts of extreme torture, murder, and mutilation. The libertines then attempt to enact these passions on their victims. The book is structured as a scientific, almost mathematical, breakdown of evil.

Sade uses the libertines to expose how unchecked authority behaves when removed from societal laws. The characters represent the highest echelons of the state—the nobility, the church, the judiciary, and finance capital. Sade demonstrates that absolute power inevitably corrupts, turning human beings into property to be consumed. Nature and Nihilism markiz de sad 120 dana sodome pdf best