Sadism and masochism in novels
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- "Sadism, in literature, is a discipline. It encourages an author to whip himself and his characters (women, usually) into an erotic lather while punishing the reader with ingenious inquiries into the soul of man. Some women, among other sensitive readers, distrust this literary practice. Other readers, women and men, hear in the literature of sadism not so much the shrieks of horror as a celebration of nihilism, which can intermittently transform itself into a ritual of transcendence. Assaults or celebrations, however one reads them, Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover and Virginie by John Hawkes are extensions of the canon of sadism." --Alan Friedman[1].
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- Fanny Hill by John Cleland - Includes a detailed description of a mutual flagellation scene between Fanny and an English client.
- The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine (1791) and Juliette (1797) by Marquis de Sade - Are written from an extreme sadistic viewpoint.
- Anti-Justine (1793) by Nicolas-Edme Rétif A response to de Sade's works, using a very similar style to describe a directly opposite political point of view.
- Venus in Furs (1870) by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Is essentially one long masochistic fantasy, where the male principal character encourages his mistress to mistreat him. Many of Sacher-Masoch's other works include themes of sadomasochism and female dominance.
- The Torture Garden (1899) by Octave Mirbeau - Has been interpreted as an allegorical examination of western society and human condition.
- Les Onze mille verges (The eleven thousand rods) by Guillaume Apollinaire - written around 1906-1907 (the publication is neither signed nor dated).
- Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye) (1928) by Georges Bataille - A short novel.
- The Story of O (1954) by Pauline Réage - Another classic masochistic novel, this time written by a woman, . In this novel, the female principal character is kept in a chateau and mistreated by a group of men, one of them her official lover. Later, she resumes her normal life while secretly becoming the property of one specific man, a friend of her lover's.
- L'Image (1956) by Catherine Robbe-Grillet, (under the pseudonym Jean de Berg) another French woman. It was made into a 1975 film, The Image, also known as The Punishment of Anne.
- Gordon (1966) by Edith Templeton
- Virginie, Her Two Lives (1982) by John Hawkes
- Nothing Natural (1986) by Jenny Diski
- The Ties that Bind (Le Lien) (1993) by Vanessa Duriès
- Marketplace series of novels by Laura Antoniou
- Writer Anne Rice has produced a number of examples of sado-masochistic fiction, including Exit to Eden and 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty novels written under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaire.
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See also
- Sadism and masochism
- Sadism and masochism in fiction
- Sadism and masochism in novels
- Sadism and masochism in mainstream films
- Sadism and masochism in mainstream drama
- Sadism and masochism in mainstream poetry
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