BDSM literature

Following the post about Fifty shades of Grey by E.L.James this one contents a choice of basic references of BDSM related literature.

First of all I should mention some of the Marquis de Sade works like Juliette (1801), The 120 Days of Sodom / Les 120 journées de Sodome (1785), Philosophy in the Bedroom / La philosophie dans le boudoir (1795) or Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtue / Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu (1791).

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)

-      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)*

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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