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WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY POLA RAPAPORT PUBLISHED IN PARIS IN 1954, STORY OF O WAS
AN IMMEDIATE BESTSELLER AND LITERARY SCANDAL: AN ELEGANTLY WRITTEN
S&M FANTASY that had all the hallmarks of being an autobiographical
account by the pseudonymous Pauline Réage. In 1994 Dominique
Aury, a mild-mannered, dowdy editor for France’s prestigious
Gallimard press, revealed her authorship. Pola Rapaport explores Aury’s
inspiration, recreating the world of ‘50s literary Paris and
setting it against dramatic sequences that bring the infamous book
to life. The author as well as various French intellectuals expound
on the thorny relationship between sexuality and power, submission
and freedom, liberation and non-being. Even today, Story of
O mystifies in its power and confounds in its contradictions. |
For sale at Amazon:
THE STORY OF O
by Pauline Reage, John P. Hand (Translator)
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