Pauline Réage

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born

September 23, 1927 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France

died

April 27, 1998

gender

female

influences

Marquis de Sade

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Fifty years ago, an extraordinary pornographic novel appeared in Paris. Published simultaneously in French and English, Story of O portrayed explicit scenes of bondage and violent penetration in spare, elegant prose, the purity of the writing making the novel seem reticent even as it dealt with demonic desire, with whips, masks and chains.

Pauline Réage, the author, was a pseudonym, and many people thought that the book could only have been written by a man. 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

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Books by Pauline Réage

Average rating: 3.41 · 4,379 ratings · 449 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Story of O 3.42 avg rating — 4,211 ratings — published 1954 — 47 editions	My rating:
	Return to the Chateau 3.28 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1965 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Return to the Chateau,: Preceded by a Girl in Love 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Histoire d'O suivi de Retour à Roissy 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Confessions of O: conversations with Pauline Réage by Pauline Réage, Régine Deforges 3.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Story of O Volume 1(Graphic Novel) by Guido Crepax, Pauline Réage 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Story of O, Volume 2 (Graphic Novel) by Guido Crepax, Pauline Réage 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The Image and Other Classic French Stories of Submission by Jean De Berg, Pauline Réage 3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1966 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Le scene madri della letteratura erotica volume 2: Antologia M-Z by Various, Anaïs Nin, Pauline Réage 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating:

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Story of O (2 books)
by Pauline Réage

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Quotes by Pauline Réage

“As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip her just a little, and she begins to like it, that’s no good either. You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.”
― Pauline Réage, Story of O

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“To say that from the moment her lover had left, O began to await his return would be an understatement. She turned into pure vigil, darkness in waiting expectation of light.”
― Pauline Réage

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“O was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks, of whatever kind, if only because these marks made it impossible for her to cheat and immediately proclaimed, the moment they were seen, that anything went as far as she was concerned. For to know this was one thing, but to see the proof of it, and to see the proof constantly renewed, was quite another.”
― Pauline Réage

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