Wanda
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch)
|
Related e |
|
Wikipedia
Featured:  Illustration: Portrait fantaisiste du marquis de Sade (1866) by H. Biberstein |
Wanda is the name of the fictional character in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novel Venus in Furs.
The character is partly based on:
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's wife Aurora Rümelin
- Fanny Pistor Bogdanoff, whom Leopold von Sacher-Masoch had met in December 1869.
[edit]
The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch
- In 1907, during a meeting at Mercure de France, Paris's foremost publisher, a little old lady in a ratty fur coat marched in and announced herself at the reception desk. Immediately her name, whispered from ear to ear. triggered a flood of memories in the minds of onlookers: "Madame de Sacher-Masoch...the Venus in Furs...Wanda, the bride, naked under her furs." Incredulously, those present stared at this legend whom they did not even know was still alive—this old woman, whose gray tufts of hair sprouted under a seedy worn hat; her thin figure beneath a peeling, shedding old fur. Decades earlier her pioneering, flamboyant "S&M" lifestyle had inspired numerous articles and several books, then she had fallen into poverty and obscurity. Out of a decrepit handbag she retrieved a thick manuscript, which Mercure de France would publish that year under the title Confession de ma vie.
- Wanda von Sacher-Masoch. (1991). "The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch" excerpts). RE/Search Publications. ISBN 0940642239 (translated from French by Marian Phillips, Caroline Hebert
[edit]
See also
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Wanda" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on original research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
