In one of this author's short stories, the protagonist attempts to break the ice of a small pond in order to throw himself in to do penance for halting his pilgrimage, but he is stopped by a girl whom he claims God has chosen
In one of this author's short stories, the protagonist attempts to break the ice of a small pond in order to throw himself in to do penance for halting his pilgrimage, but he is stopped by a girl whom he claims God has chosen as the instrument of his torture. That story about Shulamith and Zerouja Nebouch, The Angel of Death, was contained along with Haman and Esther and The Feast of the Elect in his collection Jewish Tales. In a novel by this author, one character relates the story of the ox of Dionysius to another before leaving him for Alexis Papadopolis. That novel about the relationship between Severin von Kusiemski and Wanda von Dunajew was contained in the Love section of his incomplete cycle The Legacy of Cain. FTP, name this Austrian author of Venus in Furs who lends his name to the sexual practice of gratification through receiving pain.
In one of this author's short stories, the protagonist attempts to break the ice of a small pond in order to throw himself in to do penance for halting his pilgrimage, but he is stopped by a girl whom he claims God has chosen as the instrument of his torture.
Leopold Ritter von {Sacher-Masoch}