Venus in Furs

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 companion, Severin, who tells him how to break himself of his interest with brutal ladies by perusing a composition, Diaries of a Suprasensual Man. This original copy tells of a man, Severin von Kusiemski, who is so charmed with a lady, Wanda von Dunajew, that he inquires to be her slave, and empowers her to treat him in continuously more corrupting ways. At to begin with Wanda does not get it or agree to the ask, but after humoring Severin a bit she finds the points of interest of the strategy to be curiously and excitedly grasps the thought, in spite of the fact that at the same time she disdains Severin for permitting her to do so.

Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.