Austrian writer and journalist (1836–1895) from whose name the word masochism is derived. Complete handwritten manuscript, in German, signed at the top of the first page, 12 pages, 9 x 11.5, several adjoined, no date. Manuscript is his complete short story, “Falscher Hermelin. Kleine Geschichten aus der Bühnenwelt .” A note on the margin reads, (translated): “Pt. 1 was published in 1873 by C. J. Günther, Leipzig, and was a great sensation, as is well known.” The ALS, four pages on two adjoined sheets, 5.5 x 9, dated July 16, 1877, is to the writer and journalist Eugen Zabel, editor of the K. K. Tagblatt. Sacher-Masoch praises his critical and parodistic talent, but adds that Zabel's story resembles an early draft and lacks dramatic power. He sends Zabel his own story Argumentum ad Hominem, requesting the original manuscript be returned to him. On the subject of travel, he observes: "When one gets to know the various nations then one arrives at the conviction that it is man's flaws only that are national, while the virtues of men are common to all nations; thus one is cured of one's pretensions.” Central horizontal and vertical folds, soiling, and pencil notations to manuscript, and two punch holes to edge of letter, otherwise fine condition. RR Auction COA.
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