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Venus in Furs
- Narrated by: Nik Sliwerski, Amanda Friday, Tyler Hyrchuk, Andy Harrington, Anna Grace, Josh Innerst
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch presented by The Online Stage
Severin is a passionate man who falls head over heels in love (or maybe lust?) with the beautiful young widow Wanda, begging her to treat him as her slave. Torn between pleasure and the fight against his own self-esteem, Severin submits to his mistress while Wanda discovers her own pleasure in her domination, an action that previously made her scoff. Deemed scandalous at the time of publication, this novel is a classic that opens a dialogue about human attraction and gender power struggles.
CAST:
Severin - Nik Sliwerski
Wanda - Amanda Friday
Alexis - Tyler Hyrchuk
The Painter - Andy Harrington
Venus - Anna Grace
Severin's Friend - Josh Innerst
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Christopher Walker-Lyne
- 28-12-22
Clear diction marred by absurdly inappropriate German accent
I am familiar with the plot, so far as it goes, of Venus in Furs, that justly famous text of masochistic fetishism. In this performance of it, I appreciated the use of male and female voices, all of which were clear and easily understood. Compared with many other audiobooks, I thought the pronunciation of personal and place names was rather good, with not too many mistakes.
One truly extraordinary decision, however, marred my otherwise very favourable impression of this audiobook.
It seems reasonable to represent an Italian waiter who is apparently speaking in a language other than his own, in an ‘Italian’ accent; but why on earth, in a work representing overwhelmingly German speakers, communicating with each other in their native tongue, did the male narrator choose to speak the lines attributed to the ‘German painter’, who would, like Severin and the eponymous Venus herself, be speaking in German, in a cod ‘German’ accent? On the face of it, an absurd, indefensible decision.
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