During almost three decades of unjust imprisonment D.A.F. de Sade developed a radical critique of the nascent bourgeois society and a comprehensive satire of capitalist modernity in which we can read the portrait of current fascist neoliberalism, with its scenes of oppression and dispossession of millions of people, and faithful images of the oppressors, their outrages and their ideological justifications.

But to the confinement that Sade suffered in life were added two centuries of misinterpretation, distortion and defamation among his contemporaries and by all those who during the 20th century read him even to vindicate him, until reversing the meaning of his thought and stripping him of the radical coherence with the one that lambasts the lords of money and power, fights all the oppression and injustice of the modern masters who exploit and oppress us, rape us and murder us while they talk about freedom, morality and even God.

For Jorge Veraza, Sade's prodigious literary creativity is a literary and philosophical unleashing resulting from the experience of the modernities that he had to live in prison and the great French Revolution that he foresaw and in which he militantly participated: the modernity of the Old Regime and the first two bourgeois modernities, that of Robespierre and the Terror, and the one that begins with the counter-revolutionary Thermidor and culminates with the enthronement of Napoleon who imprisons him until his death in 1814.

In this fourth book of his series dedicated to Sade, Veraza analyzes the narrative and social criticism strategies that he develops in his works (theater, novel, short story, political, philosophical, literary criticism essays...) and verifies, commenting on each of them , how it stages the impotence of Christian virtue to fight against the crime prevalent in modernity and satirizes the pseudo-philosophical discourses with which sadistic libertine monsters justify their crimes - and which have been erroneously interpreted as if they expressed Sade's own thoughts. -, speeches with which the bourgeoisie supplants French materialist philosophy with incoherent and vulgar tirades that seek to be inspired by the determinist materialism of Democritus and to which Sade opposes an Epicurean materialist philosophy that recognizes determinism in nature but bases freedom on chance. .