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 mercil...

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. Influential on Freud, Thomas Mann, and Arthur Schnitzler, Venus in Furs remains a classic literary statement on sexual submission and control.

利奥波德•萨克•马索克是奥地利作家和记者，其关于加利西亚生活以及爱情的作品有很大的影响力。

《穿裘皮的维纳斯》是关于受虐心理的经典之作，成为后世虐恋文学的范本。本书自首次出版以来,被翻译成24种文字,再版数十次,其思想被后人奉为“马索克主义”。并由此产生了现代心理学中一个著名的概念——“虐恋”。心理学大师弗洛伊德曾对此书给予了极高的评价。