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Venus In Furs (Hardcover)
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch; Translated by Fernanda Savage; Edited by Zachary Von Houser
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Venus in Furs (Hardcover)
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch; Translated by Fernanda Savage
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In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze
provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the
work of the late 19th-century German novelist Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study
yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks
to develop and explain Masoch's "peculiar way of 'desexualizing'
love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of
humanity." He shows that masochism is something far more subtle and
complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to
do with sadism; their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius
of those who created them - Masoch and Sade - lie stylistically,
philosophically, and politically poles a part.Venus in Furs, the
most famous of all of Masoch's novels was written in 1870 and
belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled The
Heritage of Cain. The cycle was to treat a series of themes
including love, war, and death. The present work is about love.
Although the entire constellation of symbols that has come to
characterize the masochistic syndrome can be found here - fetishes,
whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations,
punishment, and always the volatile presence of a terrible coldness
- these do not eclipse the singular power of Masoch's
eroticism.
First published in 1870, the author of Venus in Furs defined and
unwittingly gave his own name to that sexual proclivity we know as
masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic.
What woman could resist a trembling man handing her the
whip?
Severin is a young Galician nobleman with a secret; he can only
love a woman with a ruthless heart, who will rain her whip upon him
in a shower of bloody kisses. When he meets Wanda, the wealthy and
beautiful widow living in the apartment upstairs, he wonders if she
might be the one to help him realise his darkest desires. But Wanda
is better than she ever dreamed possible at domination and soon
Severin realises he is powerless to escape what he has begun. Here,
fantasy and reality writhe together in a ceaseless, fraught embrace
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Venus in Furs (Paperback, Revised)
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch; Introduction by Larry Wolff; Notes by Joachim Neugroschel; Translated by Joachim Neugroschel
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'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire. Published in 1870, the novel gained notoriety and a degree of immortality for its author when the word "masochism" - derived from his name - entered the vocabulary of psychiatry. This remains a classic literary statement on sexual submission and control.
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Venus im Pelz
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
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