From Divine Punishment to Punishment Divine, indeed. “You consider love – and above all, woman – to be something hostile, something you struggle against in vain, but whose power is a sweet torture to you, a rousing cruelty”. …. Gaz, Austria, 1872.. In front of the intrigued audience of a cosy bourgeois dwelling, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch reads submissive statements of sheer adoration to the cruel woman he once served with all his soul. He confesses voluntary enslavement, relishing suffering for...
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