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Leopold von Sacxher-Masoch's cel;ebrated novel, Venus In Furs, is replete with all the symbols & conventiuons that have come to be klnown undedr his name — as Masochism- fur-clad women, whips, fetishes, conrtacts & hum,ilaitions etc. His novel, though, rises above the cliches the term has been reduced to since Freud & Krafft-Ebing. Deleuze's essay attempts to restore to Masoch's work the examination that it is due, and, in the process, to separate it from that of the Marquis De Sade. Deleuze suggests that Masoch desexualizes love while sexualizing the whole history of humanity. |
