![]() ![]() ![]() This success did not prevent the French authorities from bringing obscenity charges when these were dropped, a publicity ban was imposed. Histoire d'O became an unqualified commercial success, and won the literature prize 'Prix des Deux Magots' in February 1955. Proven wrong, Paulhan urged her to publish, and took the manuscript to Pauvert who, after an overnight reading, exclaimed 'it's marvellous, it'll spark a revolution'. Desclos began Histoire d'O as a private lover letter to Jean Paulhan, a towering literary figure, in part responding to his quip that women were incapable of writing erotica. Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954.įirst edition of the most influential erotic text of the 20th century, together with 8 original sketches for a frontispiece for its sequel. ![]() REAGE, Pauline (pseudonym of Anne Desclos, 1907-1998). ![]()
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