The Masochist

The Masochist
Michael Biggins, Katja Perat
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 220pg
20 Oct 2020 UK
9781912545179
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Designed as a historical novel, The Masochist forges an intimate portrait of a young, tenacious woman who, in uncertain times at the end of the 19th century, chose an uncertain path - the only path that could lead her to freedom. On Christmas Eve 1874, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whom history would remember as the most famous masochist, left his home in Bruck an der Mur in Austria for the unknown. The novel surmises he didn' t come back alone, but brought with him a new family member: a tiny red-haired girl he found in the forests around Lemberg/ Lviv. The Masochist is the memoir of Nadezhda Moser, the woman this little girl becomes, a fictional character who forces her way among the historical figures of the time.
"Perhaps the most appealing aspect of this novel is its infinite power of linguistic invention . . . Katja Perat herself plying it so boldly and so cleverly. " Delo; "This is a novel that, in a rich, poetic language, examines historical developments on a personal and a social level and signals the changes . . . fought and won over the next centuries for women today. " Mladina
Katja Perat is one of the leading poetic voices of her generation. Her first poetry collection The Best Have Fallen (Najboljsi so padli) came out in 2011 and received both the Best Debut Award and the Kritisko sito Award, an award bestowed by the Slovenian Literary Critics' Association for best book of the year. Her second book of poetry Value-Added Tax (Davek na dodano vrednost, 2014) was also extremely well received. The Masochist (Mazohistka), published in May 2018, is her first novel.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781912545179
Published: 20 Oct 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Istros Books
Publisher: Istros Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 220

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