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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
sad
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:
Complicated
Veryyyyy interesting I feel bad for severin :( I’m getting a feeling that the author thinks all women are evil
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An awful lot of back and forth and twists and turns. Could have been a lot shorter, especially the third act.
But a beautiful story and an interesting tale of the pleasures and pitfalls of devotion.
The little speech about women's equality in the last pages was unexpected.
But a beautiful story and an interesting tale of the pleasures and pitfalls of devotion.
The little speech about women's equality in the last pages was unexpected.
tense
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An interesting love story by way of unreliable narrator, moving along spasmodically, with an unexpected gender equality comment stuck on at the end.
Rich with literary and mythological references, simply delightful.
Easy airplane read, would recommend.
Spoiler
He wants to reach his dreams, she wants to ‘cure’ him. Cheeky comment on women’s hope that a man will change his ways for them?Rich with literary and mythological references, simply delightful.
Easy airplane read, would recommend.
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Really solid. Honestly, I think Sevrin and Wanda wkuld have had a good relationship if he didn't turn the poor woman into a fetish. Imagine a man 10 years older than you insisting you play out his fantasy, wholly ignoring who you really are just so he could project his personal ideals on you (Not to mention his fruedian relationship with his aunt). Our masochist put Wanda up on such a high pedastal, and she played into it hoping he would snap out of it, of course she would grow to resent him. It's a shame they didn't have "safe, sane, consensual" back in those days, because in that last section, right before he got cucked, it was actually a very sweet and tender depiction of a kinky relationship, you know, if you ignore literally everything else that lead up to it, and everything that would happen immediately after.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment
dark
slow-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
I was interested in the fact that the word "masochism" derives from the author's surname, so I decided to read it. That being said, Venus in Furs is a dull novella. It's as cold as Wanda, the protagonist. And Severin,her worshipper and slave, fails to transmit his feelings. He's not an admirer, he's a beggar. No wonder that the kind Wanda of the first pages turns into an annoyed socialite. I blame him, incapable of loving despite his repetitive assertions.
He wants to be a slave, a thing in the hands of his goddess, and when she turns her eyes on another human being he complaines and call her cheap. Bummer
"I might punish you", she replied ironically, "but I prefer this time to reply with reason instead of lashes. You have no right to accuse me. Haven't I always been honest with you? Haven't I warned you more than once? Didn't I love you with all my heart, even passionately, and did I conceal the fact from you, that it was dangerous to give yourself into my power, to abase yourself before me, and that I want to be dominated? But you wished to be my playing thing, my slave! You found the highest pleasure in feeling the foot, the whip of an arrogant, cruel woman. What do you want now?"
"Dangerous potentialities were slumbering in me, but you were the first to awaken them. If I now take pleasure in torturing you, abusing you, it is your fault; you have made of me what I now am, and now you are even unmanly, weak, and miserable enough to accuse me".
He wants to be a slave, a thing in the hands of his goddess, and when she turns her eyes on another human being he complaines and call her cheap. Bummer
"I might punish you", she replied ironically, "but I prefer this time to reply with reason instead of lashes. You have no right to accuse me. Haven't I always been honest with you? Haven't I warned you more than once? Didn't I love you with all my heart, even passionately, and did I conceal the fact from you, that it was dangerous to give yourself into my power, to abase yourself before me, and that I want to be dominated? But you wished to be my playing thing, my slave! You found the highest pleasure in feeling the foot, the whip of an arrogant, cruel woman. What do you want now?"
"Dangerous potentialities were slumbering in me, but you were the first to awaken them. If I now take pleasure in torturing you, abusing you, it is your fault; you have made of me what I now am, and now you are even unmanly, weak, and miserable enough to accuse me".
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
surprisingly feminist and progressive for it’s time 💅