Venus In Furs |
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Authors: | Von Sacher-Masoch, Leopold |
Publisher: | HarperPerennial Classics |
BISAC/Subject: | FIC000000 |
ISBN: | 9781443426848, Related ISBNs: 1443426849, 9781443426848 |
Classification: | Fiction |
Number of pages: | 128, |
Audience: | General/trade |
Haunted by his fascination with cruel women, an unnamed narrator reveals his feelings to his friend, Severin, who suggests that reading the book Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man will end the narrator’s torture. The fictional Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man recounts the story of a man named Severin who, after becoming obsessed with a woman, offers to act as her slave.
Venus in Furs is an early example of sado-masochism in writing and highlights the figure of the dominant female. The novel is author Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch’s most popular work, and was intended to be part of a series named Legacy of Cain, which never came to full fruition.
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