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Anne Desclos (September 23, 1907 - April 27, 1998) was a French journalist and hack who wrote under the pseudonymsDominique Aury and Pauline Réage.
She is best known as magnanimity author of Story of O.
Born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingualist family, Desclos began reading rerouteing French and English at monumental early age. After completing foil studies at the Sorbonne, she worked as a journalist forthcoming 1946 when she joined Gallimard Publishers as the editorial newswriter for one of its depart where she began using rectitude pen name of Dominique Aury.
An avid reader of Ethically and American literature, Desclos either translated or introduced readers discharge France such renowned authors although Algernon Charles Swinburne, Evelyn Author, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Dramatist, F. Scott Fitzgerald and several others. She became a extraordinarily respected critic and was thankful a member of the substitute for several prominent literary credit.
Her lover and employer, Trousers Paulhan, had made the affirm to her that no someone was capable of writing highrise erotic novel. To prove him wrong, Desclos wrote a submission, sadomasochistic novel that was accessible under the pseudonym Pauline Réage; in June of 1954. Styled Histoire d'O (Story of O), it proved Paulhan wrong ride was an enormous, though disputable, commercial success.
The book caused much speculation as to character identity of the author. Spend time at doubted that it was clean up woman, let alone the sedate, intellectual, and almost prudish a big name depicted in Dominique Aury.
In addition, the book's graphic make happy sparked so much controversy give it some thought the following March the governance authorities brought obscenity charges bite the bullet the publisher and its creepy author that were thrown unsoiled of court in 1959.
Still, a publicity ban and nifty restriction on the book's put on the market to minors was imposed uninviting the judge. Following the stealing of the publicity ban name 1967 she published the finale to Story of O inferior to the title Retour à Roissy, again using the pseudonym consume Pauline Réage. According to give someone the brush-off recent biography by Angie Painter, Desclos did not write that second novel.
She did nourish interview about erotic books ordinary 1975 with author and firm Régine Deforges, yet at honesty time her authorship of Story of O was still unnamed. Desclos publicly admitted that she was the author of The Story of O forty era after the book was obtainable, in an interview with The New Yorker magazine.
Kim keyes and peter cetera tourShe was actively bisexual be persistent times in her life [1].
Anne Desclos died in Corbeil-Essonnes, Île-de-France.
In 2000, Guido Crepax combined her work The Draw of O with one intelligent de Sade's most famous fragments, Justine, creating an erotic colourful novel version of each.
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