![]() Aury set out to prove him wrong and the result was the Story of O. She wrote the book when Jean Paulhan, her married lover who was a fan of the Marquis de Sade, claimed women couldn’t write erotica. ![]() ![]() That Aury, a refined, professional woman, could write such a novel only fueled the controversy.ĭiscrediting most theories about the book, Aury claimed the novel was simply a response to a challenge. And then, in 1994 a British journalist revealed the author’s identity, a French woman named Dominique Aury. For decades readers and critics speculated on the author’s identity and debated the meaning of the novel. It is a sexually graphic, sadomasochistic novel that was published under a pseudonym in the 1950s. It’s easy to see why the Story of O was controversial and scandalous. ![]()
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