Gilles Deleuze

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Includes "Coldness and Cruelty," by Gilles Deleuze, a study of masochism and sadism, as well as "Venus in Furs," the original novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Masochism

A novella that was originally part of the epic series Legacy of Cain by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs is an exploration of the themes of sado-masochism and female dominance in a time when the terms had yet to be conceived. The main character dreams of the goddess Venus wearing furs while he speaks to her about love. Unable to let go of the fantasy, he reads a book that tells the story of Severin and Wanda, a couple involved in a sado-masochistic relationship. Severin enslaves himself to Wanda, who treats him with ever-increasing brutality and disdain. The novel was translated into English in 1921 by Fernanda Savage, and has been adapted multiple times for film and theater. In 2013, it was adapted for film again into a French movie by the same title, based on the 2010 play by American playwright David Ives, which was in turn inspired by this classic.

Venus in Furs

" O quelle volupté d'être battu ! " : ainsi s'intitulait une des nouvelles de Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895). On ne peut s'étonner que le psychiatre Krafft-Ebing se soit inspiré de son œuvre pour créer le terme de "masochisme". L'univers romanesque de cet écrivain autrichien est en effet empreint d'une sensualité trouble, d'un constant sentiment de culpabilité, de l'angoisse du péché et du mal. Le héros de La Vénus à la fourrure raconte comment, aux termes d'un contrat conclu avec sa maîtresse, il s'est engagé à être son esclave, contraint de subir toutes les humiliations qu'elle jugerait bon de lui infliger : le bonheur alterne sans fin avec la douleur, comme si l'un ne pouvait venir que de l'autre.

La Vénus à la fourrure

Sur la comtesse Bathory

Eau de jouvence

Fouets et fourrures

Severin von Kusiemski is obsessed with the Greek goddess of love, and is consumed by the desire to be dominated. When he meets his voluptuous neighbor, Wanda von Dunajew, he is enthralled, and convinces her to enter into a contract: she is to be his Mistress, he will be her slave. So they travel from the harsh Carpathian slopes to verdant Italy, where Severin's once-reluctant Mistress embraces her power with an icy fervour, testing her slave's devotion to breaking point. This otherworldly study of dominance, lust and submission broke new ground in literature and continues to challenge our learned conventions of love and sexuality. Also available in the Classics by Roads series: Dracula, Bram Stoker, ISBN 9781909399341 Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad ISBN 9781909399013 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, ISBN 9781909399334 Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne, ISBN 9781909399273 Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence, ISBN 9781909399280 Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, ISBN 9781909399082 Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky, ISBN 9781909399099 The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford, ISBN 9781909399266 The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle, ISBN 9781909399051 The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde, ISBN 9781909399006 The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, ISBN 9781909399303 The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, ISBN 9781909399020 The Thirty-nine Steps, John Buchan, ISBN 9781909399242 The Trial, Franz Kafka, ISBN 9781909399297 What is Art? Leo Tolstoy, ISBN 9781909399259 Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, ISBN 9781909399075 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, ISBN 9781909399068 The King in Yellow, Robert Chambers, ISBN 9781909399501 Emma, Jane Austen, ISBN 9781909399495"

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch

"Von Masoch muSS gesagt werden, daSS nie jemand mit mehr Dezenz so weit gegangen ist." Gilles Deleuze

mit einer Studie über den Masochismus

Venus im Pelz

Η Αφροδίτη με τη Γούνα

Anonymous

D. H. Lawrence

Daniel Defoe

John Cleland

Marquis de Sade

Michel Millot

Jack Saul

Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar feelings in readers.This contrasts erotica, which focuses more specifically on sexual feelings. Other common elements are satire and social criticism. Much erotic literature features erotic art, illustrating the text. Although cultural disapproval of erotic literature has always existed, its circulation was not seen as a major problem before the invention of printing, as the costs of producing individual manuscripts limited distribution to a very small group of wealthy and literate readers. The invention of printing, in the 15th century, brought with it both a greater market and increasing restrictions, including censorship and legal restraints on publication on the grounds of obscenity. Because of this, much of the production of this type of material became clandestine. Michel Millot. The School of Venus John Cleland. Fanny Hill Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders Marquis de Sade. The 120 Days of Sodom D. H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Venus in Furs Anonymous. The Lustful Turk Anonymous. The Romance of Lust Anonymous. Autobiography of a Flea Anonymous. The Way of a Man with a Maid Anonymous. The Nunnery Tales Jack Saul. The Sins of the Cities of the Plain

Fanny Hill, The 120 Days of Sodom, Venus in Furs, Autobiography of a Flea, The Romance of Lust, The Nunnery Tales and others

12 Masterpieces of Erotic literature. Illustrated edition

Kaïns nalatenschap: De zwerver. 2. De capitulant. 3. Marzella, of het sprookje van het geluk

Uma aventura sexual de dominação e submissão sem igual. Publicado originalmente em 1870, "A Vênus das peles" mostra pela primeira vez na literatura uma relação em que os limites do prazer e da dor não são claros. Inspirado por experiências autobiográficas do autor Sacher-Masoch, este romance deu origem ao termo "masoquismo" e permanece uma leitura fundamental para os interessados pelos enigmáticos meandros da sexualidade humana.

A Vênus das peles

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, almost exclusively remembered today as the author of the prototypical "Masochistic" novel Venus in Furs, was, in fact, a thinker of far-reaching aspirations and abilities. The present volume is one of the first representative collections the Austrian writer's shorter works in over a century. Ranging from Viennese high-society to the lives of minorities in the east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the tales herein explore Sacher-Masoch's preoccupation with ongoing social disparities, the symbolism of Slavic mythology, and both the cruelty and nobility of the feminine soul. Featuring frenzied romantics, peasants, Sadistic noblewomen, artists, and eccentrics, The Black Gondola and Other Stories offers a new assessment of the fiction of one of the most interesting German-language authors, whose work, encompassing the poetic, macabre, and erotic, was also often surprisingly compassionate.

The Black Gondola and Other Stories

together with The black czarina : [the classic work on sex and cruelty]

Venus in furs

Venus Im Pelz. Venus in Furs, Together with 'The Black Czarina'

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 arrives at a crisis point when Wanda herself meets a man to whom she would like to submit. Severin, humiliated by Wanda's new lover, ceases to desire to submit, stating that men should dominate women until the time when women are equal to men in education and rights. Probably the first book which blatantly addresses the issue of female sexual domination, this is today a classic of the genre and it is the author from whom the word masochism takes its name.

Venus in Furs: Annotated

Σκληροί έρωτες

Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller. Er schrieb auch unter den Pseudonymen Charlotte Arand und Zoë von Rodenbach. Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch war zu seiner Zeit ein vielgelesener, populärer Schriftsteller. Seine zahlreichen Romane und seine ebenso zahlreichen, meist folkloristischen Novellen waren - in betonter Nachfolge von Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew - teils als exotische, immer spannende, ja sogar als moralische Lektüre beliebt. Als einer der ersten zeichnete er ein realistisches Bild der Juden in Galizien; zeitlebens kämpfte er politisch gegen den Antisemitismus in Mitteleuropa. Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Henrik Ibsen gehörten zu seinen Bewunderern; König Ludwig II. von Bayern empfand zu dem Autor gar eine Seelenverwandtschaft. Sacher-Masochs Weltbild vereinigte in eigenartiger Weise Elemente des Minnedienstes, der Schopenhauerschen Metaphysik und vorausgreifend solche Strindbergscher Geschlechterpsychologie. Bekannt wurde Masoch durch seine Fantasie und Kunst, triebhaftes Schmerz- und Unterwerfungsverlangen ästhetisch zu formulieren. Aus dem Buch: "Goethe sagt: Das auserwählte unter den Völkern ist nicht das beste, sondern das andauerndste. In diesem wunderbaren Ausspruch ist die ganze Geschichte des israelitischen Volkes enthalten, alle seine Schicksale, gute und böse, spiegeln sich in demselben." Inhalt: Israel Bessure towe Rabbi Abdon Lewana Das Mahl der Frommen David und Abigail Schimmel Knofeles Der Buchbinder von Hort Galeb Jekarim Wie Slobe ihre Schwester verheirathet Frau Leopard Der schöne Kaleb Gelobt sei Gott, der uns den Tod gegeben! Schalem Alechem Machscheve Der Todesengel Haman und Esther Die Erlösung Das Trauerspiel im Rosengässchen Kätzchen Petersil Der falsche Thaler Zwei Aerzte ...

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