Love. The Legacy of Cain

by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Michael T. O'Pecko (Translator)

"As a young writer, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895) planned an ambitious cycle of thirty-six novellas grouped around six themes (love, property, the state, war, work, and death), but only the first volume, entitled LOVE, was completed as planned.

Like many progressive writers of the nineteenth century, Sacher-Masoch was intrigued by the variations of love that did not conform easily to the era's conventional portraits of married happiness. His work is notable for its psychological insight in a pre-Freudian era and for his ability to evoke the exoticism of the "Wild East" of the Habsburg empire's Slavic territories. Both strengths are vividly displayed in this volume."

Four novellas taken from two cycles of novellas entitled Die Liebe and Das Vermeachtnis Kains.

Genres: Fiction

187 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1870

About the author

Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.
During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_...