Venus in Furs Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch - The surrounding story concerns a man who dreams of talking to Venus almost adore whereas she wears hides. The anonymous storyteller tells his dreams to a ...

The cruelty of women! For Severin—the endlessly needy anti-hero of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s short, intense erotic novel, “Venus in Furs,” published in 1870—there is no love without denial. We first ...

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 ...

The 18 stories in this provocative collection from von Sacher-Masoch (1836–1895) are all united thematically with his most famous work, Venus in Furs, in their depiction of men who are dominated by ...

It's hard to imagine that playwright David Ives' first draft of Venus in Fur was a straightforward adaption of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella of almost the same name. (Sacher-Masoch had his ...

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 ...

Inspired by the novella "Venus in Furs" by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the story centers on an actress and a director whose power shifts during the course of the play. By David Rooney ...

Everyone’s ideal foreplay is a little different; sometimes a lot different. For 19th century Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, it involved whips and a pair of dirty, dirty boots, at least if ...

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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 ...