Writer of O
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From a review of a film about Dominique Aury aka Pauline Réage:
Now, in Writer of O we see the face of the woman who wrote of such infamous doings, and the film reveals that the truly great erotic love story is the one that lies, literarily speaking, behind the writing. Aury’s twenty-year affair with the married Jean Paulhan, of the Académie Française, was the raison d’être of Story of O, and her story is more moving, if it were possible, than that of O herself. Written on a dare from Paulhan, an admirer of the Marquis de Sade, he provoked her, saying, “Women are incapable of writing an erotic novel.”
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