Love: The Legacy of Cain

Love: The Legacy of Cain
ISBN-10
1572411198
ISBN-13
9781572411197
Series
Love
Category
Literary Criticism / General
Pages
187
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Ariadne Press
Author
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch

Description

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 and explored those themes in the collection. "Don Juan of Kolomea," who finds himself deprived of his wife's affections after the birth of their child, seeks out erotic liaisons with any desirable woman who might cross his path even while he recognizes their meaninglessness. "The Man Who Re-Enlisted," spurned by his peasant girl who chooses a rich husband over her own happiness, continues to love her from afar and develops a deep understanding of the unhappy choices poverty, class, and gender can force upon a woman.

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