Demonic Women
5 hrs. 35 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Leopold Sacher-Masoch
Author
Leopold Sacher-Masoch
Narrator
Alexander Kotov
Narrator
Alexander Kotov
Description
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born on January 27, 1836, in Lemberg (the then name for Lviv) into the family of Leopold Sacher, the chief of police of the Kingdom of Galicia and Volhynia.
When Leopold was 12, his family moved to Prague, where the boy learned German—the language in which he later wrote his works. In 1854 he moved to the capital of the Duchy of Styria—the ancient Graz. He settled in Graz for nearly two decades. There Leopold completed his education by defending a doctoral dissertation in philosophy and history.
In 1858, he anonymously published the novel “A Galician Story. The Year 1846.” From then on, at least one—or even more—books would come out from him every year. His fame rang far beyond the German-speaking world all the way to America, finding a wide response in different countries. His works were translated into many European languages and printed in mass editions.
The theme of a despotic woman’s mockery and humiliation of a weak man appeared even in Sacher-Masoch’s historical works and, over time, became so expressive that in 1886 the Viennese psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing named the sexual pathology characterized by deriving pleasure from pain and submission—masochism.
In his final years, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch lived in the German settlement of Lindheim in Hesse, where he died on March 9, 1895.
When Leopold was 12, his family moved to Prague, where the boy learned German—the language in which he later wrote his works. In 1854 he moved to the capital of the Duchy of Styria—the ancient Graz. He settled in Graz for nearly two decades. There Leopold completed his education by defending a doctoral dissertation in philosophy and history.
In 1858, he anonymously published the novel “A Galician Story. The Year 1846.” From then on, at least one—or even more—books would come out from him every year. His fame rang far beyond the German-speaking world all the way to America, finding a wide response in different countries. His works were translated into many European languages and printed in mass editions.
The theme of a despotic woman’s mockery and humiliation of a weak man appeared even in Sacher-Masoch’s historical works and, over time, became so expressive that in 1886 the Viennese psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing named the sexual pathology characterized by deriving pleasure from pain and submission—masochism.
In his final years, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch lived in the German settlement of Lindheim in Hesse, where he died on March 9, 1895.
