Venus in Furs
First published in 1870, Venus in Furs gained for its author both notoriety and a degree of immortality when the word masochism -- derived from his name -- entered the psychiatric lexicon. The novel describes the sexual obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman with the desire to be the slave of a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew.Not simply a lurid tale of sexual perversion, nor a Victorian fantasy of antique decadence, Venus in Furs is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and his world in the realm of desire. Influenti…
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Weitere Autoren: Neugroschel, Joachim (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-044781-1
- EAN: 9780140447811
- Produktnummer: 9549314
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.1 cm 134 g
- Gewicht: 134
Über den Autor
Joachim Neugroschel has won three PEN translation awards and the French-American translation prize. He has also translated Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, both for Penguin Classics. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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