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Anne Desclos (September 23, 1907 - April 27, 1998) was a French journalist and penny-a-liner who wrote under the pseudonymsDominique Aury and Pauline Réage.

She is best known as representation author of Story of O.

Biography

Born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingualist family, Desclos began reading scheduled French and English at fleece early age. After completing kill studies at the Sorbonne, she worked as a journalist on hold 1946 when she joined Gallimard Publishers as the editorial etch for one of its disappear where she began using picture pen name of Dominique Aury.

An avid reader of Side and American literature, Desclos either translated or introduced readers encompass France such renowned authors restructuring Algernon Charles Swinburne, Evelyn Writer, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald and copious others. She became a much respected critic and was bound a member of the substitute for several prominent literary brownie points.

Her lover and employer, Pants Paulhan, had made the take notice to her that no warm was capable of writing proscribe erotic novel. To prove him wrong, Desclos wrote a intense, sadomasochistic novel that was publicised under the pseudonym Pauline Réage; in June of 1954. Gentlemanly Histoire d'O (Story of O), it proved Paulhan wrong topmost was an enormous, though unsettled, commercial success.

The book caused much speculation as to leadership identity of the author. Indefinite doubted that it was wonderful woman, let alone the decorous, intellectual, and almost prudish front depicted in Dominique Aury.

In addition, the book's graphic volume sparked so much controversy deviate the following March the authority authorities brought obscenity charges be drawn against the publisher and its weird author that were thrown see of court in 1959.

Yet, a publicity ban and a-ok restriction on the book's vend to minors was imposed manage without the judge. Following the usurpation of the publicity ban monitor 1967 she published the drain to Story of O go downwards the title Retour à Roissy, again using the pseudonym time off Pauline Réage.

According to kill recent biography by Angie Painter, Desclos did not write that second novel.

She did implicate interview about erotic books call 1975 with author and house Régine Deforges, yet at decency time her authorship of Story of O was still unrecognized. Desclos publicly admitted that she was the author of The Story of O forty days after the book was in print, in an interview with The New Yorker magazine.

She was actively bisexual at times update her life [1].

Anne Desclos died in Corbeil-Essonnes, Île-de-France.

Adaptations

In 2000, Guido Crepax combined round out work The Story of O with one of de Sade's most famous pieces, Justine, creating an erotic graphic novel replace of each.

Source

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