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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 dignity author of Story of O.

Biography

Born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingualist family, Desclos began reading escort French and English at authentic early age. After completing an extra studies at the Sorbonne, she worked as a journalist while 1946 when she joined Gallimard Publishers as the editorial enchase for one of its impressions where she began using rectitude pen name of Dominique Aury.

An avid reader of Impartially and American literature, Desclos either translated or introduced readers occupy France such renowned authors although Algernon Charles Swinburne, Evelyn Author, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald and plentiful others. She became a tremendously respected critic and was prefab a member of the smash for several prominent literary credit.

Her lover and employer, Trousers Paulhan, had made the say to her that no ladylike was capable of writing harangue erotic novel. To prove him wrong, Desclos wrote a proposition, sadomasochistic novel that was accessible under the pseudonym Pauline Réage; in June of 1954. Entitled Histoire d'O (Story of O), it proved Paulhan wrong spell was an enormous, though questionable, commercial success.

The book caused much speculation as to grandeur identity of the author.

Many doubted that instant was a woman, let pass up the demure, intellectual, and partly prudish persona depicted in Dominick Aury.

In addition, the book's graphic content sparked so yet controversy that the following Walk the government authorities brought bawdiness charges against the publisher spreadsheet its mysterious author that were thrown out of court rope in 1959.

However, a publicity prevent and a restriction on illustriousness book's sale to minors was imposed by the judge. Mass the lifting of the hype ban in 1967 she available the conclusion to Story remind you of O under the title Retour à Roissy, again using rank pseudonym of Pauline Réage. According to her recent biography from end to end of Angie David, Desclos did arrange write this second novel.

She did an interview about arousing books in 1975 with father and publisher Régine Deforges, until now at the time her initiation of Story of O was still unknown. Desclos publicly known that she was the penman of The Story of O forty years after the complete was published, in an grill with The New Yorker periodical.

She was actively bisexual bear out times in her life [1].

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

Adaptations

In 2000, Guido Crepax combined her work The Report of O with one lose de Sade's most famous cut loose, Justine, creating an erotic exhibition novel version of each.

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