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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was definitely (?) a trailblazer for its time, and rocketed Sacher-Masoch to fame. However, I find some parts of the book extremely repetitive. Additionally, it's quite funny how the main character vacillates between demanding cruelty and in the other breath, rebuffing it. It was a relatively short read, and while it's a fascinating look into how someone would have felt the urges towards what we know as BDSM currently, some of the metatextual narratives struck me as ridiculous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Confinement, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-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
Der Genuß allein macht das Dasein wertvoll; wer genießt, der scheidet schwer vom Leben; wer leidet oder darbt, grüßt den Tod wie einen Freund; wer aber genießen will, muss das Leben heiter nehmen, im Sinn der Antike.“
S. 143
S. 143
A dangerously alluring book about a man who, on a fit of passion, voluntarily becomes the slave of a woman.
Severin is a quintessential toxic male sub and an early heteropessimist. Way ahead of his time!
Why I read this book is a long and convoluted story but regardless...it was a psychologically interesting read.
Omg totally absolutely delightful and interesting. started reading because cam and i started reading deleuze's masochism book - deleuze separates out masochism and sadism as two entirely different psychological phenomenon which i thought was really incorrect, but possibly a product of just reading sacher-masoch vs sade as very different writers. so i read venus in furs to find out (and i was correct)
venus in furs is really funny because its about a guy who has the love and affection of a beautiful woman but he just really wants to be a bottom and she is very resistant to it. through becoming her bottom she loses her affection for him. tale as old as time..... kind of a perfect sister novel to babygirl the movie because much like harris dickinson, severin is pulling something out of her, something possibly honest but also veneer and performance, that a fantasy being enacted is both an honest instinct but also exactly what it is -- a fantasy. i think it might be easy to read this novel as somewhat misogynistic (moral: if u give women power they will just hurt you man.....) but it is interesting how much explicit communication and resistance wanda has to dominating severin and how much they both explicitly talk about the push and pull of giving power and receiving it. by dictating their power dynamic and through his passivity severin is also exercising a particular amount of control over wanda and she, like a good gf, is the water that shapes itself to the glass. i thought wanda was compellingly written and interesting for the time period. gender book
venus in furs is really funny because its about a guy who has the love and affection of a beautiful woman but he just really wants to be a bottom and she is very resistant to it. through becoming her bottom she loses her affection for him. tale as old as time..... kind of a perfect sister novel to babygirl the movie because much like harris dickinson, severin is pulling something out of her, something possibly honest but also veneer and performance, that a fantasy being enacted is both an honest instinct but also exactly what it is -- a fantasy. i think it might be easy to read this novel as somewhat misogynistic (moral: if u give women power they will just hurt you man.....) but it is interesting how much explicit communication and resistance wanda has to dominating severin and how much they both explicitly talk about the push and pull of giving power and receiving it. by dictating their power dynamic and through his passivity severin is also exercising a particular amount of control over wanda and she, like a good gf, is the water that shapes itself to the glass. i thought wanda was compellingly written and interesting for the time period. gender book