Venus in Furs (1870) (edit title/settings)

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• Wanda: The Venus in Furs
• Severin: Add a description of this character.
• Gregor
• Samson

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• “I have actually felt the lash. I am cured.”

  Severin

• “"I can easily imagine belonging to one man for my entire life, but he would have to be a whole man, a man who would dominate me, who would subjugate me by his innate strength, do you understand? And every man - I know this very well - as soon as he falls in love becomes weak, pliable, ridiculous. He puts himself into the woman's hands, kneels down before her. The only man whom I could love permanently would be he before whom I should have to kneel."”

  Wanda

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• am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips from my heart.

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• desiring himself completely and unconditionally subject to the will of a person of the opposite sex, and being treated by this person as by a master, to be humiliated, abused, and tormented, even to the verge of death.

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• 'The more devoted a woman shows herself, the sooner the man sobers down and becomes domineering. The more cruelly she treats him and the more faithless she is, the worse she uses him, the more wantonly she plays with him, the less pity she shows him, by so much the more will she increase his desire, be loved, worshipped by him.

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• 'We are faithful as long as we love, but you demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of herself without enjoyment.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Florence
• Titian
• Italy
• Paris

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Gender Inequality: ...or gender equality, depends how one looks at it.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Author)

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1. Fernanda Savage (Translator)

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• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Erotica