Books: Sacherism

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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...

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