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Availability:In StockContributor:Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Gilles Deleuze, Jean McNeil (Translator)Series:Zone BooksAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1991-08-05Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9780942299557ISBN-10:942299558UPC:9780942299557Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:GermanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCRGSKDMT0

In his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of late nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks to develop and explain Masoch's "peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity." He shows that masochism is something far more subtle and complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to do with sadism: their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius of those who created them -- Masoch and Sade -- lie stylistically, philosophically, and politically poles apart.

Venus in Furs, the most famous of Masoch's novels, belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled The Heritage of Cain. The cycle was to treat a series of themes, including love, war, and death. The present work is about love. Although the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome can be found here -- fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment, and always the volatile presence of a terrible coldness -- these received associations do not eclipse the truly singular and surprising power of Masoch's eroticism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9780942299557ISBN-10:942299558UPC:9780942299557Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:GermanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCRGSKDMT0
Publisher: Zone Books

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