Reviews - Kürklü Venüs | The StoryGraph

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Kürklü Venüs

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

3.39 AVERAGE

ninagoth's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

madtastically's review against another edition

3.75

dark tense slow-paced

msgtdameron's review against another edition

4.0

challenging fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This work describes the relationship between dominate and submissive. Sevrin our hero and our submissive falls in love with his Venus, both the marble statue, and the widow who lives above him that looks like the statue. Wanda, the widow, will only hear him if he swears to be her slave. He begs her to make him her slave and she does. He is whipped repeatedly, disgraced, fed poorly, looses sleep, etc all to worship at her feat. But, Wanda wants to be loved by Sevrin and the only way he will love her as she wishes to be loved is if he is her slave. Sevrin has many psychosexual issues that Wanda cures him of through him being her slave and humiliated. Fascinating work and in the forward it is suggested that one reads it through the eyes of a man who had a very abusive childhood and explored these same ideas of dominance and submissive in his early adulthood. Read that way the whole work makes sense.

babyfacedoldsoul's review against another edition

4.0

I heard of this book through a psychology of sexuality course. It was a quick read and very intriguing. I was unable to sympathize with the male protagonist and without giving anything away I think he got what he deserved for seeing women as an object to fulfill his own sexual fantasies and I enjoyed his harsh awakening. I was surprised by the feminist message near the end. I found this book to be psychologically fascinating particularly the last twenty pages.

sapphicroyaltea's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 40%

The main character was annoying and really prone to monologues. There was a lot of misogyny that was hard to get through and the actual fetish pieces must have come significantly later in the book.