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Edition · 2000-10-05 · Softcover
Venus in Furs
LSLeopold von Sacher-Masoch- Translation
- Joachim Neugroschel
- 2000
- year of publication
- 160
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- penguin_classics
- Translation
- Joachim Neugroschel
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4044-781-1
- EAN
- 9780140447811
- Publication date
- 2000-10-05
- Book
- Venus in Furs · 4 editions
The publisher on this edition
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.
