{"subjects": ["Bondage (Sexual behavior)", "Fiction", "Erotic stories", "Sexuality", "French Erotic literature", "Female domination (Sexuality)", "Masochism", "Sadomasochism", "Women", "Sadism", "Sacher-masoch, leopold, ritter von, 1835-1895", "Fiction, general", "Fiction, erotica"], "key": "/works/OL500754W", "title": "Venus im Pelz", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL33283A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [104283], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"A shocking exploration of masochism, narcissism, and sexual power, Venus in Furs brought instant notoriety to its author for its unprecedented portrayal of a man who passionately makes himself the slave of the woman he loves. Sacher-Masoch freely mixes philosophy and pornography in the story of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty under the tutelage of the merciless beauty Wanda von Dunajew.\".\n\n\"More than a lurid tale of sexual obsession and perversion, Venus in Furs is a daring successor to the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Pioneering in its revelations about the pain of love and the love of pain, Sacher-Masoch's masterpiece remains a classic literary statement on sexual submission and control.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T03:47:45.910404"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-11T05:20:48.828352"}}