Following the post about Fifty shades of Grey by E.L.James this one contents a choice of basic references of BDSM related literature.
Also deserves mention as a head reference Sacher Masoch’s Venus in Furs (1870).
However, the main reference of BDSM literature is the Story of O / Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage (1954), continued by Return to the Chateau / Retour à Roissy.
Other literary references between eighteenth and early
twentieth century:
- N.E. Rétif: Le pied de Fanchette (1769)
- John
Davidson: A Full and True Account of the
Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender (1895)
- Octave
Mirbeau: The torture garden / Le jardin des supplices (1899)
- Georges
Bataille: Story of the Eye / Histoire de l’oeil (1928)
- Between
1917 and 1939 was published in Paris, France, a collection of BDSM novels (the Collection des orties blanches) including
nearly fifty titles
Late 20th and 21st centuries (Those titles marked with
* are originally published in spanish or catalan):
- Miles
Underwood (pseudonym of John Glassco): The
English Governess (1960)
- S.G.
Clozen: Beacul (1971)
- Elizabeth
McNeil: Nine and a half weeks (1978)
P.S- Heudaux: Nos plaisirs (1983)
P.S- Heudaux: Nos plaisirs (1983)
- Almudena Grandes: Las edades de Lulú (1989)*
- Vanessa
Duries: Le lien / The ties that bind
(1993)
- Florence Dugas: Dolorosa soror / Sad sister (1996)
- Jose Luis Sampedro: El amante lesbiano (2000)*
- Gordon Grimley: Beatrice (2003)
- Marthe
Blau: Entre ses mains / Submission
(2003)
- Pura Salceda: Versos de perra negra (2005)*
- Juan Abreu: Diosa (2006)*
- Rosa Peñasco: La sumisa insumisa (2008)*
- Joan
Carreras: L'home d'origami (2009)*
- E.L.
James: Fifty shades of Grey (2011)
Luisgé Martin: La mujer de sombra (2012)*
Luisgé Martin: La mujer de sombra (2012)*
In Anne Rice’s
books it is easy to find BDSM suggestions (that become explicit in her Sleeping
Beauty trilogy, 1983-1985). Also, many people connect John Norman’s Chronicles of
Gor (published since 1966) with BDSM. Finally I would like to mention the books
of Yolanda Celbridge (a prolific
collective pseudonym) as very representative of a literary subgenre called BDSM romance.
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