Histoire d'O
The Classic....
The story most people know as one that depicts absolute submission.
Written by Pauline Reage of which I am still not sure wether she is atually female or male (I think the latter but that is just my humble opinion).
Histoire d'O, notorious as an underground novel. remarkable as a rare instance of pornography sublimed to purest art - appeared first under mysterious circumstances at Paris in 1954. Histoire d'O is neither a fantasy nor a case history. With its alternate beginnings and endings, its simple direct style (like tht of a fable) its curious air of abstraction, of independence from time, place and personality, what it resembles most is a legend - the spiritual history of a saint and a martyr. Commencing with the simplest of situations, the story gradually opens out into a Daedalian maze of perverse relationships - a clandestine society of sinister formality and elegance where the primary bond is mutual complicity in dedication to the pleasures of Sadism and masochism...
To be continued......