The Masochist Eskandar Habache following contemporary European literary trends

following contemporary European literary trends rather than domestic poetic traditions

­— Robin Richardson

"Literature is the doorway to a country's soul"

The book is tactile

something Scotellaro no doubt kept for the hustings and public meetings

The Masochist Eskandar Habache following contemporary European literary trendsWhy would people trouble themselves with the facts, when fiction is so much more enticing? 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