Venus in Furs - Hardcover

Von Sacher- Masoch, Leopold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0554330954 ISBN 13: 9780554330952

Publisher: BiblioLife, 2008

Synopsis

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Review:

A classic literary exploration of sexual dominance and submission, this 1870 novel helped introduce the term "masochism" into the language of psychiatry. Author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch drew on his own experiences in the creation of this timeless psychodrama, the chronicle of a nobleman's slavish obsession with a voluptuous, whip-wielding beauty.

About the Author:

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch January 27, 1836, Lemberg March 9, 1895, Lindheim, Frankfurt am Main was an Austrian writer renowned in his day for his descriptions of life, landscapes and customs of all regions that formed the Austro-Hungarian Empire . Nowadays his celebrity is due first of all to the scandal that accompanied the publication of some of his novels, in particular of the Venus of the furs, and to be the Masoch last name the inspirer of the word masochism, whose use to define certain sexual behaviors appears For the first time in sexual psychopathy (1886), by Krafft-Ebing, who gave him this name because of the peculiar hobbies of his characters.

About this edition

• Publisher: BiblioLife
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0554330954
• ISBN 13: 9780554330952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 148