Venus in Furs, a Novel: Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja - Couverture souple

Von Sacher-Masoch

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0922233012 ISBN 13 : 9780922233014

Editeur : Blast Books,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

At the time this tale of the man and his quest for physical abuse by fair ones was written, it was considered literary, not perverted or pornographic.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 — 9 March 1895) was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name. During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Severin is so infatuated with Wanda that he requests to be treated as her slave and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not want to, but later embraces the idea; though at the same time, she disdains Severin for allowing her to do so. Severin describes his feelings during these experiences as suprasensuality. Wanda treats him brutally as a servant, and recruits a trio of African women to dominate him. The relationship

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blast Books,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0922233012
• ISBN 13: 9780922233014
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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