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Venus in Furs

Autor: Leopold Von Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 135

Venus in Furs Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch - The surrounding story concerns a man who dreams of talking to Venus almost adore whereas she wears hides. The anonymous storyteller tells his dreams to a companion, Severin, who tells him how to break himself of his interest with brutal ladies by perusing a composition, Diaries of a Suprasensual Man. This original copy tells of a man, Severin von Kusiemski, who is so charmed with a lady, Wanda von Dunajew, that he inquires to be her slave, and empowers her to treat him in continuously more corrupting ways. At to begin with Wanda does not get it or agree to the ask, but after humoring Severin a bit she finds the points of interest of the strategy to be curiously and excitedly grasps the thought, in spite of the fact that at the same time she disdains Severin for permitting her to do so.

El beso de la mujer araña / The Kiss of the Spider Woman

Autor: Manuel Puig

Número de Páginas: 0

La obra más conocida de Manuel Puig, “el brillantemente inventivo novelista argentino” (The New York Times), es ahora el tema de una premiada comedia musical. El beso de la mujer araña es una elegante y fascinante novela sobre el amor y la victimización. En una cárcel argentina, dos hombres comparten una celda: Molina, un diseñador de escaparates homosexual que es egoísta, auto-denigrante y al mismo tiempo encantador; y Valentín, un revolucionario articulado y ferozmente dogmático obsesionado con la memoria de la mujer que abandonó por la causa. Ambos son gradualmente transformados por su cautelosa pero creciente obsesión de Molina con la fantasía y el romance del cine. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Kiss of the Spider Woman is a graceful, intensely compelling novel about love and victimization. In an Argentine prison, two men share a cell: Molina, a gay window dresser who is self-centered, self-denigrating, yet charming as well; and Valentin, an articulate, fiercely dogmatic revolutionary haunted by memories of a woman he left for the cause. Both are gradually transformed by their guarded but growing friendship and by Molina’s obsession with the fantasy and romance of the...

Venus in Furs (穿著皮裘的維納斯)

Autor: Leopold Von Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 867

If you've ever been curious about where the term "masochism" comes from, you will find it laden in the pages of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's masterpiece, Venus in Furs, for whom the term was named. Drawn in part from his own life experiences, Sacher-Masoch's novel develops an eroticism unlike any other. The book's protagonist, Severin, is so infatuated and obsessed with the object of his desire, Wanda, that he asks to be her slave. Although hesitant at first, Wanda's treatment of Severin becomes more and more depraved, fueling Severin's own desires for cruelty.

Venus in Furs

Autor: Ritter Von Leopold Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 190

The novel draws themes, like female dominance and sadomasochism, and character inspiration heavily from Sacher-Masoch's own life. Wanda von Dunajew, the novel's central female character, was modelled after Fanny Pistor, who was an emerging literary writer. The two met when Pistor contacted Sacher-Masoch, under assumed name and fictitious title of Baroness Bogdanoff, for suggestions on improving her writing to make it suitable for publication.

Venus in Furs

Autor: Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 100

In "Venus in Furs," Leopold von Sacher-Masoch explores the intricate interplay of desire, power, and submission within a richly layered narrative. Drawing upon the influences of Romanticism and early psychology, the novella intricately weaves a tale of the protagonist, Severin, who becomes enthralled by the enigmatic and dominant figure of Wanda. Through a blend of vivid imagery and psychological depth, Sacher-Masoch crafts a compelling exploration of the complexities of eroticism, challenging societal norms of the 19th century, and delving into the nuances of sexual identity and the nature of love. The literary style is both provocative and introspective, establishing the work as a cornerstone of masochistic themes in literature that would ripple through subsequent movements and beliefs regarding sexuality. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian writer and philosopher of the 19th century, was raised in a culturally rich environment that undoubtedly influenced his exploration of passion and fetishism. His own experiences with romantic entanglements, combined with his interest in the dynamics of power and submission, prompted him to explore these themes in his writing. "Venus in...

Don Juan de Kolomea

Autor: Leopold Von Sacher Masoch

Número de Páginas: 74

Para Sacher-Masoch, el amor es sencillo: es la guerra entre los sexos; y amar consiste en ser yunque o martillo. A través de Don Juan –figura mítica en la interrogación amorosa–, Sacher-Masoch investiga el conflicto que está en el base del matrimonio monógamo («una hermosa demencia que consume toda la alegría, de la cual sólo hace falta recordar instantes.»). El seductor implacable narra la historia de sus múltiples amores, reflejada sobre el telón de la memoria de una pasada e irrecuperable felicidad conyugal. Su voz, cínica y derrotada, es capaz de hacer inventario de sus conquistas mientras sostiene que: «nuestra única sabiduría es el suicidio. Pero la naturaleza nos ha garantizado un dolor todavía más horrible que la vida: el amor». Porque, en una vuelta de tuerca al mito, su Don Juan es también un místico y, como los místicos medievales, su idea de la redención oscila entre la crueldad y la lujuria. «Sí, el amor es un puro sufrimiento; el placer es la redención. Pero es también la violencia que uno de los dos ejerce sobre el otro, es el concurso para lograr ser sometido al otro. El amor es esclavitud y uno se torna esclavo cuando ama. El hombre...

Venus in Furs

Autor: Leopold Ritter Von Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 209

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born in Lemberg, Austrian Galicia, on January 27, 1836. He studied jurisprudence at Prague and Graz, and in 1857 became a teacher at the latter university. He published several historical works, but soon gave up his academic career to devote himself wholly to literature. For a number of years he edited the international review, Auf der Hohe, at Leipzig, but later removed to Paris, for he was always strongly Francophile. His last years he spent at Lindheim in Hesse, Germany, where he died on March 9, 1895. In 1873 he married Aurora von Rumelin, who wrote a number of novels under the pseudonym of Wanda von Dunajew, which it is interesting to note is the name of the heroine of Venus in Furs. Her sensational memoirs which have been the cause of considerable controversy were published in 1906. During his career as writer an endless number of works poured from Sacher-Masoch's pen. Many of these were works of ephemeral journalism, and some of them unfortunately pure sensationalism, for economic necessity forced him to turn his pen to unworthy ends. There is, however, a residue among his works which has a distinct literary and even greater psychological...

Delta de Venus

Autor: Anaïs Nin

Número de Páginas: 352

Escritos a principios de la década de 1940 por encargo de un excéntrico coleccionista de libros que insistía en pedir «menos poesía» y descripciones más explícitas en las escenas sexuales, los relatos de Delta de Venus no vieron la luz hasta los años 1970. Ambientados en torno al París de la época e hilados por la aparición recurrente de personajes comunes de distinta importancia según cada cuento, ofrecen una visión libre de las relaciones humanas, en la que el erotismo y el ansia de placer no excluyen ni la belleza ni el sentimiento, ni la amistad ni la búsqueda de la autenticidad.

Secretos compartidos

Autor: L. Marie Adeline

Número de Páginas: 260

Cassie se acaba de incorporar como reclutadora de hombres atractivos para el selecto club S.E.C.R.E.T. Tras descubrir que Will, el hombre al que ama, está esperando un bebé con otra mujer, se dedica a hacer realidad las fantasías eróticas de Dauphine Mason, el último fichaje del grupo. Dauphine es propietaria de una tienda de ropa vintage en Nueva Orleans y su mayor preocupación es conseguir que los demás se sientan bien aunque ella se esté hundiendo por una ruptura que la dejó sexualmente insegura. Poco a poco se da cuenta de que para vencer sus miedos tiene que olvidar su amargo pasado. Y, al hacerlo, sus fantasías no solo reavivarán su llama sexual, sino que despertarán de nuevo sus maltrechos sentimientos.

Venus in Furs

Autor: Leopold Von Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 162

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

Manifestations of Venus

Autor: Katie Scott , Caroline Arscott

Número de Páginas: 254

Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition's history: the first forty years of the tribunal in Modena, from 1598 to 1638, the year of the Jews' enclosure in the ghetto.Scholars have in the past tended to group trials of Jews and conversos in Italy together. This book emphasises the fundamental disparity in Inquisitorial procedure, as well as the evidence examined, and argues that this was especially true in Modena where the secular authority did not have the power during the period in question to reject, or even significantly monitor, Inquisitorial trial procedure. It draws upon the detailed testimony to be found in trial transcripts to analyse Jewish interaction with Christian society in an early modern community.This book will appeal to scholars of inquisitorial studies, social and cultural interaction in early modern Europe, Jewish Italian social history and anti-Semitism.

Venus in Fur

Autor: David Ives

Número de Páginas: 60

THE STORY: Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur . Into his empty audition room walks a vulgar and equally

Opulencia

Autor: Sena Jeter Naslund

Número de Páginas: 0

Los aires en la Europa de 1770 aún son tranquilos para la nobleza. Con apenas catorce años, María Antonieta deja su tierra y su familia para convertirse en la futura emperatriz de Francia. A pesar de su lógico nerviosismo y sus dudas, sus nuevos súbditos la reciben con afecto e ilusión y ella se adapta poco a poco a su nueva realidad. Pero una pena inmensa invade su corazón: los años pasan y su esposo, el futuro Luis XVI, evita la consumación del matrimonio. Luego, la muerte de su madre, sumada a la crueldad de las intrigas cortesanas, va alejando a la joven de sus buenas intenciones iniciales. Poco a poco la joven reina comienza a aislarse de los crecientes problemas sociales, lo que no la favorece para nada a los ojos de sus súbditos, y menos aún cuando las cosechas se pierden, el invierno recrudece y las deudas y el hambre incitan el deseo de venganza y rebelión. Toda la nobleza francesa se ve cada vez más atrapada por el espíritu revolucionario de una época que luego culminaría en el oscuro período llamado "el Terror". María Antonieta se convierte en objeto de odio y resentimiento para aquellos que alguna vez la quisieron. Y su vida, como la de todos aquellos ...

Historia Del Ojo (Spanish Edition)

Autor: Georges Bataille

Número de Páginas: 84

Puede decirse sin temor que Historia del ojo es la obra maestra de la literatura eroticaPuede decirse sin temor que Historia del ojo es la obra maestra de la literatura erótica.En ella confluyen, por un lado, la mejor prosa en clave surrealista de este gran novelista, ensayista y poeta francés y, por otro, la esencia de su obsesiva preocupación por el sexo, la muerte y la fe -su fe- que configura, en realidad, gran parte de su obra.Partiendo de un proceso creativo muy querido de los surrealistas, relaciona, en una trama anecdótica de hecho muy simple, las imágenes que de un modo inconsciente y automático evocan el ojo, el huevo, el sol, los genitales del toro, con toda su carga de connotaciones atávicas, y nos las revela en su contenido erótico más revulsivo. El personaje de la joven Simone, que transgrede en todos sus actos cualquier norma de comportamiento sexual admitido, moral y conscientemente, es la encarnación, por una parte, del Deseo inconsciente y, por otra, del Pecado, de lo Prohibido y por ende del Placer, que a su vez, por ser fruto del mal, no es más que portador del máximo castigo : la muerte. Así pues, el goce en su plenitud sabe siempre a muerteEs una ...

Venus in Furs

Autor: Leopold Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 106

Venus in Furs (German: Venus im Pelz) is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain. Venus in Furs was part of Love, the first volume of the series. It was published in 1870.The novel draws themes, like female dominance and sadomasochism, and character inspiration heavily from Sacher-Masoch's own life. Wanda von Dunajew, the novel's central female character, was modelled after Fanny Pistor, who was an emerging literary writer. The two met when Pistor contacted Sacher-Masoch, under assumed name and fictitious title of Baroness Bogdanoff, for suggestions on improving her writing to make it suitable for publication.The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break himself of his fascination with cruel women by reading a manuscript, Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man.

Venus in Furs Illustrated

Autor: Leopold Von Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 194

Venus in Furs (German: Venus im Pelz) is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain. Venus in Furs was part of Love, the first volume of the series. It was published in 1870.

Ulysses Annotated

Autor: Don Gifford , Robert J. Seidman

Número de Páginas: 700

Rev. ed. of: Notes for Joyce: an annotation of James Joyce's Ulysses, 1974.

Venus in Furs

Autor: Sachermasoch Leopold Von, Ritter

Número de Páginas: 174

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Fur Nation

Autor: Chantal Nadeau

Número de Páginas: 241

Fur Nation traces the interwoven relationships between sexuality, national identity, and colonialism. Chantal Nadeau shows how Canada, a white settler colony, bases its existence and its nationhood on a complex sexual economy based on women wrapped in fur. Nadeau traces the centrality of fur through a series of intriguing case studies, including: * Hollywood's take on the 330 year history of the Hudson Bay Company, founded to exploit Canada's rich fur resources * the life of a postwar fur fashion photographer * a 1950s musical called Fur Lady * the battle between Brigitte Bardot's anti-fur activists and the fur industry. Nadeau highlights the connection between 'fur ladies' - women wearing, exploiting or promoting furs - and the beaver, symbol of Canada and nature's master builder. She shows how, in postcolonial Canada, the nation is sexualised around female reproduction and fur, which is both a crucial factor in economic development, and a powerful symbol through which the nation itself is conceived and commodified. Fur Nation demonstrates that, for Canada, fur really is the fabric of a nation.

Straight Writ Queer

Autor: Richard Fantina

Número de Páginas: 275

The advent of gay and lesbian studies as an academic field opened the door for a new exploration of sexuality in literature. Here, works generally considered heterosexual are re-examined in the light of queer theory. The notion of homosexuality is viewed as a social construction that emerged during the 19th century, with a definitive difference between biological sex and gendered behavior. Heterosexuality is determined by whether sexual performance conforms to society-designated gender roles. From this wider perspective, this book examines literature previously viewed as "straight" in a search for alternative manifestations of desire and performance, relationships that contain an apparent disconnect between gender and desire. With broad coverage of many periods, authors, and genres, the 17 essays identify inherently queer heterosexual practices and critique the idea of heteronormativity, blurring the line between homo- and heterosexuality. Topics discussed include sodomy and chastity; Victorian literature; the relationship between sex, gender and desire; and the instability in literary portrayals of gender and sexuality. George Eliot, George Meredith, Ernest Hemingway, and Rider...

Públicos y contrapúblicos

Autor: Michael Warner

Número de Páginas: 96

James Joyce & the Perverse Ideal

Autor: David Cotter

Número de Páginas: 276

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy

Autor: Laura Hinton

Número de Páginas: 296

Offers a new interpretation of “sympathy” as an instrument for investigating contemporary culture, gender, and visual technique.

Venus in Furs

Autor: Von Sacher Leopold

Número de Páginas: 160

Venus in Furs (German: Venus im Pelz) is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain. Venus in Furs was part of Love, the first volume of the series. It was published in 1870.

El azul del cielo

Autor: Georges Bataille

Número de Páginas: 190

A pesar de la luminosidad del ttulo, esta obra se inspira en la transgresin de una moral prudente, en una bsqueda peligrosa: el aprendizaje de la muerte, la profundidad imposible de ese cielo azul que nos atrae y repele al mismo tiempo. Londres, Pars, Barcelona, dibujan una topografa de la perdicin, un marco en el cual Troppman, a travs de borracheras, noches en blanco y extraas celebraciones, se va acercando hacia esa nueva forma de pureza, la comunin con la muerte gracias al descubrimiento iluminador de los srdido.

Venus in Furs

Autor: Leopold Ritter Von Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 228

Included in this volume is a selection from a remarkable series of letters between Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja, an aspiring writer, translated into English for the first time, and an extraordinary insight into the compulsive imagination of Sacher-Masoch grappling with the demons that both torment and delight him.

The Mastery of Submission

Autor: John Kenneth Noyes

Número de Páginas: 298

Noyes documents the evolution of the concept of masochism with scenes in literature from John Cleland's Fanny Hill through Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs and Pauline Reage's Story of 0.

A Delicate Choreography

Autor: David Sabean

Número de Páginas: 1215

The origins of the incest taboo have puzzled many of the most influential minds of the West, from Plutarch to St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, David Hume, Lewis Henry Morgan, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Edward Westermarck, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. This book puts the discussion of incest on a new foundation. It is the first attempt to thoroughly examine the rich literature, from philosophical, theological, and legal treatises to psychological and biological-genetic studies, to a wide variety of popular cultural media over a long period of time. The book offers a detailed examination of discursive and figurative representations of incest during five selected periods, from 1600 to the present. The incest discussion for each period is complemented with a presentation of dominant kinship structures and changes, without arguing for causal relations. Part I deals with the legacy of ecclesiastical marriage prohibitions of the Middle Ages: Historians dealing with the Reformation have wondered about the political and social implications of theological debates about the incest rules, the Enlightenment opted for sociological considerations of the household and a new...

Nirvana

Número de Páginas: 365

Venus In Furs

Autor: Sacher-masoch Ritter Von Leopold

Número de Páginas: 0

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian novelist, first published his book "Venus in Furs" in 1870. The narrative centers on Severin von Kusiemski, who develops an obsession with Wanda von Dunajew. Wanda's attractiveness and assertive nature interest Severin, who persuades her to accept him as her slave. When Wanda agrees, Severin submits to her completely, giving her the power to rule and manipulate him. The book examines topics including sexuality and desire as well as power, dominance, and surrender. It is significant for establishing the idea of masochism, which bears the author's name and refers to the practice of taking pleasure in humiliation or suffering. The book has received acclaim for its psychological nuance and examination of interpersonal connections, but it has also drawn criticism for how it portrays women and for its overtly sexualized language. Venus, the Roman goddess of love, and the furs Wanda dons while controlling Severin are references in the book's title. The book has been converted into a variety of media, such as operas, plays, and movies, and it has impacted the creative output of numerous writers and performers.

Por quién doblan las campanas

Autor: Ernest Hemingway

Número de Páginas: 618

Por quién doblan las campanas es una de las novelas más populares del Premio Nobel de Literatura Ernest Hemingway. Ambientada en la guerra civil española, la obra es una bella historia de amor y muerte que se ha convertido en un clásico de nuestro tiempo. En los tupidos bosques de pinos de una región montañosa española, un grupo de milicianos se dispone a volar un puente esencial para la ofensiva republicana. La acción cortará las comunicaciones por carretera y evitará el contraataque de los sublevados. Robert Jordan, un joven voluntario de las Brigadas Internacionales, es el dinamitero experto que ha venido a España para llevar a cabo esta misión. En las montañas descubrirá los peligros y la intensa camaradería de la guerra. Y descubrirá también a María, una joven rescatada por los milicianos de manos de las fuerzas sublevadas de Franco, de la cual se enamorará enseguida. Reseña: «La novela que le dio a Hemingway lo mejor y lo peor que puede recibir alguien con mentalidad de atleta: un triunfo insuperable.» Juan Villoro

Up-Tight

Autor: Victor Bockris

Número de Páginas: 145

The Velvet Underground is arguably one of the most influential American rock bands ever. Based on interviews with former members Lou Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison, as well as others from Andy Warhol's circle of artistic collaborators, Up-Tight is the definitive oral and visual history of the band and its revolutionary, often avant-garde music. Bockris and Malanga's intelligent and entertaining approach-which does not shy away from the drugs, sleaze, and controversy that enveloped the band seemingly from its inception-provides compulsive reading.

Venus in Furs

Autor: Sacher-masoch

One Hundred Years of Masochism

Autor: Michael C. Finke , Carl Niekerk

Número de Páginas: 234

Just over a century has passed since the sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing coined the term "masochism" in a revised edition of his Psychopathia Sexualis (1890). Put into circulation as part of the fin-de-siècle process through which sexuality and sexual practices considered deviant became medicalized, this suspicious concept grew in significance and explanatory power in the expanding new context of psychoanalytic discourse. Today the study of masochism shows signs of becoming a discipline in its own right, the political, social, and cultural ramifications of which exceed and, indeed, render problematic, traditional psychoanalytic perspectives on the phenomenon. The essays in this volume demonstrate, however, that the concept of masochism still offers a point of entry into psychoanalytic theory that, while revealing a number of its most vexing insufficiencies and problematic constructions, evokes also a sometimes surprising illuminative potential and capacity to adapt to changing social realities. And as the volume's title is meant to suggest, the authors represented here tend to agree that the continued rich viability of psychoanalytic theory in cultural analysis is best...

Venus in Furs

Autor: Leopold Sacher -. Von Masoch

The Modern Venus

Autor: Elisabeth Gernerd

Número de Páginas: 281

From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century woman's wardrobe. They not only created her shape, but expressed her character, sociability, fashionability, and even political allegiances. These so-called ephemeral flights of fashion were not peripheral and supplementary, but highly charged artefacts, acting as cultural currency in contemporary society. The Modern Venus highlights the significance of these elements of a woman's wardrobe in 1770s and 1780s Britain and the Atlantic World, and shows how they played their part in transforming fashionable dress when this was expanding to new heights and volumes. Dissecting the female silhouette into regions of the body and types of dress and shifting away from a broad-sweeping stylistic evolution, this book explores these potent players within the woman's armoury. Marrying material, archival and visual approaches to dress history, and drawing on a rich range of sources – including painted portraiture, satirical prints, diaries, memoirs – The Modern Venus unpacks dress as a medium and mediator in women's lives. It demonstrates the importance of these overlooked...

Fur

Autor: Jonathan Faiers

Número de Páginas: 242

A groundbreaking, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of fur's fashionable and controversial history The first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, politics, and, of course, fashion. This material has a long, complex, and rich history, culminating in recent and ongoing anti-fur debates. Jonathan Faiers discusses how fur--long praised for its warmth, softness, and connotation of status--became so controversial, at the center of campaigns against animal cruelty and the movement toward ethical fashion. At the same time, fake fur now faces a backlash of its own, given the environmental impact of its manufacture and its links to fast fashion. Divided into five sections--dedicated to hair, pelt, coat, skin, and fleece--the book surveys not only the politics of fur but also its centrality to western fashion, the tactile pleasure it gives, and its use in literature, art, and film. This thoughtfully reasoned, eloquently written, and spectacularly illustrated examination of fur is both timely and essential, filling a gap in fashion scholarship and appealing to a broad audience.

Venus in Furs

Autor: Leopold Sacher-masoch , Fernanda Savage

Número de Páginas: 152

Venus in Furs (German: Venus im Pelz), is the most famous work of the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and a part of 'Love' in the first volume of the series of 'Das Verm�chtnis Kains' or Legacy of Kains sometimes translated as Heritage of Cain which was published in 1870. The plan of the author was to group various novellas into 6 volumes, each of which was titled according to its central theme viz.: "Love", "Property", "State", "War", "Work", and "Death". The first volume, "Love", was completed in 1870 and it begins with the prologue short story The Wanderer in which a hunter off in the dense forest meets a strannik (wandering ascetic), whose passionate speech reveals his philosophy where Cain is responsible for having unleashed into the world the six "evils" that title each volume of the cycle. The only other volume, "Property", was published in 1877. The novel draws themes, like female dominance and sadomasochism, and character inspiration heavily from the author's own life. Wanda von Dunajew, the novel's central female character, was modeled after Fanny Pistor, who was an emerging literary writer. The two met when Pistor contacted Sacher-Masoch, under assumed name ...

Venus in Furs

Autor: Leopold Von Sacher-masoch

Número de Páginas: 152

Venus in Furs (German: Venus im Pelz), is the most famous work of the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and a part of 'Love' in the first volume of the series of 'Das Vermachtnis Kains' or Legacy of Kains sometimes translated as Heritage of Cain which was published in 1870. The plan of the author was to group various novellas into 6 volumes, each of which was titled according to its central theme viz.: "Love," "Property," "State," "War," "Work," and "Death." The first volume, "Love," was completed in 1870 and it begins with the prologue short story The Wanderer in which a hunter off in the dense forest meets a strannik (wandering ascetic), whose passionate speech reveals his philosophy where Cain is responsible for having unleashed into the world the six "evils" that title each volume of the cycle. The only other volume published was "Property," published in 1877. The novel draws themes, like female dominance and sadomasochism, and character inspiration heavily from the author's own life. Wanda von Dunajew, the novel's central female character, was modeled after Fanny Pistor, who was an emerging literary writer. The two met when Pistor contacted Sacher-Masoch, under...