God, love, punishment and pleasure in literature 
assume that much of our blog followers "Free Books" would argue that "Valentine's Day, like Christmas and other festivals, are just old marketing strategies Product mass consumption. And while this fact " is a truth so great that if you write on the white of the eye with a needle would serve as a warning to those who want to learn" , as they said in the Arabian Nights, is also true that love is energy, like any of the supports that allow the development of language in communication, as this is now used to free books.
Most of the history of literature of all cultures of our small planet involve love as a main theme, with death, betrayal, greed and hunger of knowledge. Maybe for us, akin to Western Judeo-Christian culture, we can find one of the most beautiful explanations of the relationship between language, communication and love by the Apostle Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 13:8-13 ) :
"... If I come to speak in tongues of men or angels, but I have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
If I have prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but I have no love I am nothing.
If I give all I possess and surrender my body to be burned, but I have no love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. Love is not flashy, nor is it arrogant.
is not rude, nor seek its own. Is not provoked, nor does the wrong accounts.
does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love always will be. But the prophecies will end, leave the language and knowledge will cease.
we know in part and prophesy in part ... "
text could also be located at the dawn of the genre of science fiction, thanks to the final sentence" because we know in part and prophesy in part "could well serve as an early definition of" extrapolation . "applied to advance literature or science fiction. But although they say that the Judeo-Christian tradition is the mother of dreams of the future in literature, in a contradictory statement, exaggerated and reckless, it is also true, as that expression Thousand and One Nights, what if we had made it instilled the Judeo-Christian in our western cultures is that the idea of \u200b\u200blove is closely and inextricably linked with suffering. Hence, from aggression, martyrdom and punishment, to the suffering, gentleness, or flogging and flagellation, have been used by artists and poets in the West as the iconography of the sublime, meaning sublimation as offering to God of our sorrows, to show the love we feel for him.
But the same history of the New Testament gospels also told us that Jesus of Nazareth his father said, "Our Father" did not want us death and suffering, as the ancient god of the Semites, and as the only commandment, Jesus commanded us "
" A new commandment I give you: you love one another as I have loved
Our Western history now has more than two thousand years of bloody contradictions, sublime sacrifice, martyrdom educational, bonfires positions presented, and Of course, this also has produced its expression in literature, which allow the rebellious spirit of being free with great violent passions, because of this terrible repression and punishment unbearable to praise the Lord ...
is why with great cynicism and caring for your enjoyment we bring you one of the most poignant erotic novels of the West: "Venus in Furs" by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (Poland, 1835-1895). Of whom found a modest, concrete comment on one of our literary sources:
"... Born in 1835 in Lemberg, Galicia (Poland), where his father was head of police. Wrote the saga of Cain's legacy belongs to his most famous book Venus in furs. His literary values \u200b\u200bwere widely recognized by his contemporaries, but what transpired in the history and comes to us is the case, the scandal of his sexual desires, be whipped and humiliated by a woman in furs, to sign contracts that establish their status slave, and the inclusion of a third party in their marriages. That is the theme of Venus in furs. The fate of Masoch is doubly unfair, because his name used to designate the masochism, the opposite. But because their work fell into oblivion while his name became current. He died in 1895.
(lajime input) .. in "that book"
F eliz Valentine Day to everyone!
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