Talk:Anne Desclos

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I made a minor change to this article, altering "Following the lifting of the publicity ban in 1967 she wrote the conclusion to The Story of O under the title Retour à Roissy" to "Following the lifting of the publicity ban in 1967 she published the conclusion to The Story of O under the title Retour à Roissy," as my understanding of "Retour à Roissy" is that it is the "final chapter, which has been supressed" described at the end of "Histoire d'O." I recall Reage saying in an interview given at some point or another that it should have remained unpublished, and I can't help but infer that all this means both works were written at the same time.

It seems according to Angie David that "Retour à Roissy" was not written by Pauline Réage. Maybe by José Cabanis. Hektor 05:43, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone clarify what this sentence really means: "According to her recent biography by Angie David, this second novel was indeed not written by Dominique Aury."

We should be explicit and direct in this wiki. Did or did not Anne Desclos write Retour à Roissy? If she went on record saying that she didn't, then we should just say that. Anyone who has read Retour à Roissy knows that it is inconsistent with Histoire d'O and even the writing style seems different.

Any new information on this important topic??--Nemissimo II 08:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer to the biography by Angie David. Hektor (talk) 23:29, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why does the link for "an interview with the New Yorker" lead to an article in the UK Guardian? Ergonaut2001 (talk) 14:59, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"publicity ban"[edit]

As I said on Talk:Story_of_O, I wonder if this is a mistranslation. French "publicité" basically means advertising... AnonMoos (talk) 20:01, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Range of the article[edit]

This article is a pale shadow of the French language Wikipedia article about Anne Desclos and is esp. vapid about her work as a literary critic, as Dominique Aury.

There is a lot more to this woman (French Resistance ???) than that rather stupid novel.

Pascalulu88 (talk) 23:58, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If "Story of O" is what she's most famous for in English-speaking countries, then the article will tend to reflect that. AnonMoos (talk) 08:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since when is Wikipedia supposed to give people only what they expect? This is not the Encyclopédie des idées reçues. We're supposed to provide biographical articles that give the reader a balanced, neutral view of what the person did and why they're significant. She wasn't even known to be the author of that book until 1994, meanwhile she'd won the Prix des Critiques and the Prix Femina.

I'm going to translate the article about her from French Wikipedia so that our English article is not a coathanger for that novel and SM. Pascalulu88 (talk) 22:42, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not saying what should be, just pointing out that it's not particularly surprising that an an article in language X on person Y would focus on what Y is most famous for among speakers of X. AnonMoos (talk) 02:35, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]