Author: Peter Weiss

Cited by

• Ronald Hayman (1)
  • IN: Marquis de Sade: The Genius of Passion (1978) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I do not know if I am hangman or victim for I imagine the most horrible tortures and as I describe them I suffer them myself. There is nothing I could not do and everything fills me with horror.
    FROM: Marat/Sade, (1963), Play, Germany
• Christine Carbo (1)
  • IN: The Wild Inside (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race I hate Nature this passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-face that can bear everything this goads us to greater and greater acts...
    FROM: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, (1963), Play, Germany