Dr David Carter has taught at St Andrews and Southampton universities in the UK and was until recently Professor of Communicative English at Yonsei University, Seoul. He now works freelance as a writer, translator and journalist. He has published on psychoanalysis, literature, drama, film history and applied linguistics, and has recently published books on the Belgian author Georges Simenon, on Literary Theory, East Asian Cinema and The Western. For Hesperus Press he has translated Georges Simenon’s Three Crimes, Honoré de Balzac’s Sarrasine, Klaus Mann’s Alexander, a companion volume of works by the Marquis de Sade entitled Virtue, and is the author of Brief Lives: Honoré de Balzac. He has also directed and acted in a production of Peter Weiss’ play The Marat/Sade.