Anne Desclos

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). Quotes Il y avait des étreintes qui lui avaient été immondes, des mains qui sur ses seins étaient une intolérable insulte, des bouches qui avaient aspiré ses lèvres et sa langue comme de molles et ignobles sangsues, et des langues et des sexes, bêtes gluantes, qui se caressant à sa bouche fermée, au sillon de toutes ses forces serré de son ventre et de ses reins, l’avaient raïdie de révolte, si longuement que le fouet n’avait pas été de trop pour la réduire, mais auxquels elle avait fini par s’ouvrir, avec un dégoût et une servilité abominables. There had been embraces she had found foul, hands that had been an intolerable insult on her breasts, mouths which had sucked on her lips and tongue like so many soft, vile leeches, and tongues and sexes, viscous beasts which, caressing themselves at her closed mouth, at the double furrow before and behind, which she had squeezed tight with all her might, had stiffened her with disgust and kept her stiffened so long that it was all the whip could do to unbend her, but she had finally yielded to the blows and opened, with disgust and abominable servility. Histoire d'O (1954). Translated by Sabine d'Estrée (Richard Seaver) as Story of O (New York: Grove Press, 1965), p. 93 External links Category:1907 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Journalists from France Category:Novelists from France Category:Erotica authors Category:Women authors from France Category:Literary critics