THE FIRST MASOCHIST by James Cleugh. 220 pages. Stem & Day. $6.95. History has been cruel to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. In his day—the latter half of the 19th century—he was an enormously popular ...
Roman Polanski’s adaptation of David Ives’s play “Venus in Fur” — itself a sort of meta-adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 short novella (whose title is usually translated as “Venus in ...
The writing of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch impacted the world, but in his birthplace of Lviv, in western Ukraine, his controversial legacy has not been officially recognized. An unwitting tourist who ...
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born in Lemberg, Austrian Galicia, on January 27, 1836. He studied jurisprudence at Prague and Graz, and in 1857 became a teacher at the latter university. He published ...
Venus in Furs is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel draws themes, like female dominance and sadomasochism, and character inspiration ...
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