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Anne Cécile Desclos (23 September 1907 – 27 April 1998) was a French literary critic, journalist, and novelist who wrote under the pen names Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. She is best known for her erotic novel Story of O (1954).
Jun 26, 2024 · Story of O, erotic novel by Anne Desclos, first published in French (Histoire d’O, 1954) under the pen name Pauline Réage, itself a pen name for Dominique Aury, a French writer and translator who was a respected member of the literary establishment but who gained her greatest fame in 1994 when it was confirmed that she was the author, under ...
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Feb 16, 2017 · Anne Desclos, who wrote under the pseudonym Pauline Reage, was a French writer who explored themes of sexual domination and submission in her 1954 novel Story of O. The article examines her life, her influences, and her relationship with her lover and publisher Jean Paulhan.
Jun 15, 2011 · Anne Desclos was the pseudonymous author of the erotic classic The Story of O, a love letter to her lover Jean Paulhan. She revealed her true identity in 1994, after his death and her own, in a New Yorker profile by John de St. Jorre.
Apr 27, 1998 · The writer's true identity was not revealed until 10 years ago, when, in an interview with John de St Jorre, a British journalist and some-time foreign correspondent of The Observer, an impeccably dressed 86-year-old intellectual called Dominique Aury (born Anne Desclos) acknowledged th
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Jun 21, 2012 · The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of GreyA beautiful young French woman, known only as ‘O’, is taken by her lover René to a splendid mansion near Paris.
Anne Cécile Desclos (23 September 1907 – 27 April 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. Born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingual family, Desclos began reading in French and English at an early age.
