Liebesgeschichten aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten Novellen. Dritte Auflage
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von
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256 pages; Contemporary black pebbled grained half morocco over pattern-printed paper-covered boards, raised bands, title and author stamped in gilt directly in the second and fourth panels, pale peach endpapers. A handsome copy; the binding is fresh and tight, showing only the very lightest touch of rubbing at the points of the corners. The text pages are very slightly toned, with an irregular gutter edge to the half title and a tiny blank corner broken away from one leaf. Pencil signature of "P. F. Bruner" at the head of the half tiltle. A nice copy of the third edition of the first part of one of the scarce cycles of novellas by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch [1836-1895], whose name was adopted to construct the term "masochism." This new word for an aspect of human behavior which the author thought to be undiscovered was invented in 1886 by the Austrian psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840 1902) in his book 'Psychopathia Sexualis' -- "because the author Sacher-Masoch frequently made this perversion, which up to his time was quite unknown to the scientific world as such, the substratum of his writings." Krafft-Ebing pointed out that his construction of "masochism" was exactly parallel to the application of the term "Daltonism" to refer to color blindness -- adopted in honor of John Dalton, who first described that condition. In a later edition of 'Psychopathia Sexualis,' Krafft-Ebing was a bit more personal about his invention: "During recent years facts have been advanced which prove that Sacher-Masoch was not only the poet of Masochism, but that he himself was afflicted with the anomaly. Although these proofs were communicated to me without restriction, I refrain from giving them to the public." Leopold von Sacher-Masoch took exception to this outing. The matter may have contributed to the fact that, in his late fifties, Sacher-Masoch's mental health began to deteriorate, and he spent the last years of his life under psychiatric care. Even so, the public's curiosity about the matter was probably impossible to satisfy until the 1906 publication of memoirs by his first wife, Aurora von Rümelin -- ['Meine Lebensbeichte' (1906), issued under the pseudonym "Wanda v. Dunajew"]. The work of fiction by Sacher-Masoch which is most closely associated with the condition we all know now as masochism was his novella "Venus im Peltz / Venus in Furs." The story was inspired by an eposide from its author's life. On December 9,1869, Sacher-Masoch and his mistress Baroness Fanny Pistor signed a contract making him her slave for a period of six months. The contract contained the stipulation that the Baroness wear furs as often as possible; cruelty was also explicity encouraged. Sacher-Masoch took the alias of "Gregor" and disguised himself as the servant of the Baroness. The two traveled by train to Italy; Sacher-Masoch rode in the third-class compartment, while the Baroness had a seat in first-class, arriving in Venice where they were not known, and the change of scene made them believe that they could act as they pleased. The situation is nearly paralleled in "Venus in Furs" right down to the differential between train tickets, but the destination was changed in the novella from Venice to Florence. Sacher-Masoch would be more than a footnote in literary history, even had he not made an involuntary contribution of his name to form a word which seems likely to outlive us all. He had been born in the city we now know as Lviv, Ukraine. At the time, it was known as Lemberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a province of the Austrian Empire. He started studying German, the language of his life as a writer, when he was twelve. After studies in Law, History and Mathematics in the University at Graz, he returned to Lemberg and became a professor. His first writings have to do with the history and folklore of his native Galicia. Gradually, he ceased to lecture and devoted himself to writing, turning mostly to fict. Seller Inventory # 41488
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Title: Liebesgeschichten aus verschiedenen ...
Publisher: Verlag von R. Jacobsthal, Berlin
Publication Date: 1884
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Edition: Third Edition.
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Liebesgeschichten aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten Novellen. Dritte Auflage
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Third Edition. 256 pages; Contemporary black pebbled grained half morocco over pattern-printed paper-covered boards, raised bands, title and author stamped in gilt directly in the second and fourth panels, pale peach endpapers. A handsome copy; the binding is fresh and tight, showing only the very lightest touch of rubbing at the points of the corners. The text pages are very slightly toned, with an irregular gutter edge to the half title and a tiny blank corner broken away from one leaf. Pencil signature of "P. F. Bruner" at the head of the half tiltle. A nice copy of the third edition of the first part of one of the scarce cycles of novellas by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch [1836-1895], whose name was adopted to construct the term "masochism." This new word for an aspect of human behavior which the author thought to be undiscovered was invented in 1886 by the Austrian psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (18401902) in his book 'Psychopathia Sexualis' -- "because the author Sacher-Masoch frequently made this perversion, which up to his time was quite unknown to the scientific world as such, the substratum of his writings." Krafft-Ebing pointed out that his construction of "masochism" was exactly parallel to the application of the term "Daltonism" to refer to color blindness -- adopted in honor of John Dalton, who first described that condition. In a later edition of 'Psychopathia Sexualis,' Krafft-Ebing was a bit more personal about his invention: "During recent years facts have been advanced which prove that Sacher-Masoch was not only the poet of Masochism, but that he himself was afflicted with the anomaly. Although these proofs were communicated to me without restriction, I refrain from giving them to the public." Leopold von Sacher-Masoch took exception to this outing. The matter may have contributed to the fact that, in his late fifties, Sacher-Masoch's mental health began to deteriorate, and he spent the last years of his life under psychiatric care. Even so, the public's curiosity about the matter was probably impossible to satisfy until the 1906 publication of memoirs by his first wife, Aurora von Rümelin -- ['Meine Lebensbeichte' (1906), issued under the pseudonym "Wanda v. Dunajew"]. The work of fiction by Sacher-Masoch which is most closely associated with the condition we all know now as masochism was his novella "Venus im Peltz / Venus in Furs." The story was inspired by an eposide from its author's life. On December 9,1869, Sacher-Masoch and his mistress Baroness Fanny Pistor signed a contract making him her slave for a period of six months. The contract contained the stipulation that the Baroness wear furs as often as possible; cruelty was also explicity encouraged. Sacher-Masoch took the alias of "Gregor" and disguised himself as the servant of the Baroness. The two traveled by train to Italy; Sacher-Masoch rode in the third-class compartment, while the Baroness had a seat in first-class, arriving in Venice where they were not known, and the change of scene made them believe that they could act as they pleased. The situation is nearly paralleled in "Venus in Furs" right down to the differential between train tickets, but the destination was changed in the novella from Venice to Florence. Sacher-Masoch would be more than a footnote in literary history, even had he not made an involuntary contribution of his name to form a word which seems likely to outlive us all. He had been born in the city we now know as Lviv, Ukraine. At the time, it was known as Lemberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a province of the Austrian Empire. He started studying German, the language of his life as a writer, when he was twelve. After studies in Law, History and Mathematics in the University at Graz, he returned to Lemberg and became a professor. His first writings have to do with the history and folklore of his native Galicia. Gradually, he ceased to lecture and devoted himself to writing, turning mostly to fiction. He also edited the Leipzig-based monthly literary magazine 'Auf der Höhe: Internationale Review' -- a progressive magazine to promote tolerance and integration for Jews in Saxony. The publication also supported the emancipation of women with articles on women's education and suffrage. Even in the years of his mental decline, Sacher-Masoch sought to combat antisemitism through an association for adult education called the "Oberhessischer Verein für Volksbildung" (OVV), founded in 1893 with his second wife, Hulda Meister. But, of course, for most of us who are remote from the author's time and place, he lives mainly as the source and inspiration for "masochism." His novella: "Venus im Peltz" was a section in the first volume of what the author intended to be a six-volume group of stories to be published under the title: 'Das Vermächtnis Kains' ["The Legacy of Cain"] only the first two parts of the six were completed and published. But the volume offered here is the beginning of another of Sacher-Masoch's grand literary projects: Liebesgeschichten aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten ["Love Stories from Various Centuries"]. Interestingly, there is another tale of Venus included in the present volume: [Die Venus von Murany -- see page 129]. The present volume presents itself as a third edition, published ten years after the original appearance. This edition appears now to be quite scarce. See OCLC 254197049 (which finds no copies in the U.S., but locates only a single copy of this 1884 edition -- in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz). Two years after this 1884 volume appeared in Berlin, Krafft-Ebing published the first edition of his 'Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie' in Stuttgart, and thus launched Leopold von Sacher-Masoch into an unwanted immortality. [Arguably, Krafft-Ebing's work made a similar construct to form the term "sadism." (But the Marquis de Sade had been dead for 72 years, and, even so, does anyone really th. Seller Inventory # 45673