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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 ...
Jun 15, 2011 · At some point during the war, while working as a journalist and translator, she discarded her original name, Anne Desclos, erasing it entirely from her professional and personal life. Almost no one knew that Aury was not actually her own name; she kept that fact a secret.
Feb 16, 2017 · It was only after the author’s death in 1998 that Pauline Reage was revealed to be Anne Desclos, whose cautiousness regarding her identity was further underscored by the fact that she had also...
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. ...more. Combine Editions. Pauline Réage’s books.
The Story of O is a 1954 erotic novel written by French writer Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage. Explicit and intense in tone, the work centers on the sexual life and fantasies of O, who engages in sadomasochistic play with her lover and several other figures, both men and women.
AURY, Dominique 1907–1998 (Pauline Réage) PERSONAL: Born Anne Desclos, September 23, 1907, in France; name changed, c. 1940; died April 30, 1998 (some sources say April 26, 1998). Education: Lycée Fénelon (Paris, France), graduated; attended École du Louvre.
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.
Mar 28, 2012 · The risque tale of a submissive female photographer was written on somewhat of a dare. Anne Desclos' lover, a fellow writer and admirer of Marquis de Sade, said it was not possible for a...
The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of Grey. A beautiful young French woman, known only as ‘O’, is taken by her lover René to a splendid mansion near Paris.
