Word: sacherism
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...third wife the beautiful Adeline de Horsey. They lived happily together until he died at the age of 71 of injuries he received when he fell from his horse." Too bad as well that the writers bypass the kind of speculation that occurs to the reader immediately. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch might just as easily have given us sacherism as masochism...
...whipped. We've got to be cussed. ... He whipped us, but we needed whipping." This is no simple disciple of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch talking, but a professional football player trying to attain the mystical condition of "upness" or "winning attitude," which, according to American tradition, has to be artificially induced by alternate whippings and strokings from an older...
...Vienna's 300-year operatic tradition, directing one of the longest and best-quality seasons in the world. In return, he may receive up to $30,000 a year, plus a liberal expense account, an apartment, a chauffeur-driven car and the run of Vienna's famed Sacher Hotel-free room, meals and entertaining. With the job vacant since the death four months ago of Director Egon Hilbert, it might be thought that opera administrators and conductors the world over would be clamoring...
...such odd fictive figures as the Bagman and the Crook. In a novel of this picaresque kind, an orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds a bastard brother, and eventually learns his own name, Arthur George Griffin. A baleful woman named Maire, who has made several attempts on his life, turns...
History has been cruel to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. In his day-the latter half of the 19th century-he was an enormously popular writer. Hardly anyone knows him today except as the sick mind who, like the Marquis de Sade, lent his name to the glossary of psychiatric terms. This first English-language biography by a journeyman translator and biographer (Pushkin, Brighter than a Thousand Suns) tries hard to deal coolly with its subject, but Sacher-Masoch was such a bumbler that the reader cannot take him seriously. The poor fellow was really a kind of romantic, who always...