Anti-Justine Explained

Anti-Justine
Author:	Nicolas-Edme Rétif (writing as Jean-Pierre Linguet)
Pub Date:	1798/1863

Anti-Justine is a French pornographic novel by Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (1734–1806), published in 1798. It was written to oppose the political philosophy of the Marquis de Sade as expressed in Justine.

The original edition is incomplete. It was published pseudonymously and only four copies survive. In 1863, an anonymous publication was made by an unknown person. In 1864, Auguste Poulet-Malassis privately printed a superior edition.

Texts

• - French only.

References

• Sur L'Anti-Justine : (compléments à la Notice bibliographique du n° 34) . Aleksic . Branko . Études rétiviennes . 0295-3730 . 2003 . 35 . 215–220 .
• Book: Bloch, Iwan . Iwan Bloch

. Marquis de Sade: His Life and Works . Iwan Bloch . The Minerva Group . 2002 . 1-58963-567-1 . 249–250 .

• Book: Porter, Charles Allan . Restif's novels: or, An autobiography in search of an author . registration . Yale Romantic studies . Yale University Press . 1967 . 384–389 .
• Book: Young, Paul J. . Seducing the eighteenth-century French reader: reading, writing, and the question of pleasure . Ashgate Publishing . 2008 . 978-0-7546-6417-8 . 124 .