| Description |
293 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Coldness and Cruelty. I. The Language of Sade and Masoch. II. The Role of Descriptions. III. Are Sade and Masoch Complementary? IV. The Three Women in Masoch. V. Father and Mother. VI. The Art of Masoch. VII. Humor, Irony and the Law. VIII. From Contract to Ritual. IX. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Masochism. X. The Death Instinct. XI. Sadistic Superego and Masochistic Ego -- Venus in Furs. (Complete Text) -- Appendix 1. I. A Childhood Memory and Reflections on the Novel -- Appendix II. Two Contracts of Masoch -- Appendix III. The Adventure with Ludwig II |
| Summary |
"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (b. 1835) was a Professor of History and a celebrated German novelist of the latter half of the 19th century. Here, in Venus in Furs, Masoch's most famous novel, one finds the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome - fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment and of course the perpetual and volatile presence of a terrible coldness. Yet what we actually encounter has little to do with these reductive caricatures."--BOOK JACKET. "Deleuze's essay is an attempt to restore to Masoch's work the rigorous and informed philosophical examination that is due it. Deleuze's essay - the most profound study yet produced on the relations between Masochism and Sadism - seeks to develop and explain Masoch's peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Fiction in German 1830-1856 |
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Fiction in German 1830-1856 English texts |
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Sex relations Masochism |
| Notes |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : G. Braziller, 1971 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von, 1835-1895 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von, 1835-1895.
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Sade, comte de, Donatien Alphonse Francois
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Sade, marquis de
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Erotic literature -- History and criticism.
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Masochism in literature.
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Sadism in literature.
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| Author |
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Présentation de Sacher-Masoch, le froid et le cruel. English. 1989
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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von, 1835-1895.
Venus im Pelz. English. 1989
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995, author
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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von, 1835-1895, author
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| LC no. |
88020823 |
| ISBN |
094229954X |
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0942299558 |
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