This post continues my translation of Régine Deforges' interview of Pauline Réage, "O m'a dit", started there. The interview took place in 1975. Régine died on April 3, 2014. RD - You said: I long had hope to rebuild my life, in a certain way. In what way? PR - Well, to have a life like everyone … Continue reading Two writers and a dark princess
Régine Deforges
O m’a dit: Régine Deforges’ interview of Pauline Réage (cont’d) #literature
I am posting here, on several pages, the end of my translation of Régine Deforges' s interview of Pauline Réage (1975) . The beginning is here. RD - What seduces you in a woman, what draws you to her? PR - Her beauty, and her courage. RD - Her beauty? PR - In essence, yes. I … Continue reading O m’a dit: Régine Deforges’ interview of Pauline Réage (cont’d) #literature
#WritersWednesday: O m’a dit/5
O m'a dit/4 RD - Why is it, in your view, that there is no other woman writing erotic books? PR - There was none, I believe, twenty years ago, there are many now: Violette Leduc, Jeannine Aeply, Emmanuelle Arsan, Xavière - one out of two sign with her own name, the others with pseudonyms. … Continue reading #WritersWednesday: O m’a dit/5
#WritersWednesday ~ O m’a dit/4
This is the continuation of my translation of Régine Desforges' interview of Pauline Réage, author of Histoire d'O, in 1975. /avant-propos, /1, /2, /3 RD - There is one thing I would like you to tell me about since I don’t understand it well, I who dreams only of bright things open to the world, … Continue reading #WritersWednesday ~ O m’a dit/4
O m’a dit/3 #WritersWednesday
Avant propos O m'a dit/1 O m'a dit/2 RD - Were you, as an adolescent, a young girl, at all sensitive to those popular songs around the “légionnaire”? [foreign légion soldier] Do you remember? PR - Yes I recall. No, not at all. RD - What do you think was the reason at that time … Continue reading O m’a dit/3 #WritersWednesday
#WW ~ O m’a dit/1
O m’a dit/1 [Avant-Propos] In the text: RD is Régine Deforges, PR is Pauline Réage, notes [in brackets] are from me. All html links are mine. © Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1975, 1995. RD - Pauline Réage, you are the author of one of the most read modern French novels in the world: Histoire d’O. A book … Continue reading #WW ~ O m’a dit/1
#WritersWednesday ~ O m’a dit/Avant-Propos
O m’a dit ~ Avant Propos This translation of "O m'a dit" is my own. I acknowledge all copyrights: editions Jean-Jacques Pauvert (1975 and 1995), Régine Deforges, Gallimard, estate of Ms Aury. An American-English translation of "O m'a dit" was published in the 80's by Viking Press. Régine Deforges interviews Pauline Réage in 1975, twenty … Continue reading #WritersWednesday ~ O m’a dit/Avant-Propos
The End of the Challenge #AtoZChallenge #WritersWednesdays
The End of the Challenge There is always an anticlimax at the end, like finishing the first reading of a beloved book. But, somehow, one of the posts has given me an idea. Doing research for the Challenge leads sometime to old friends, or friends one did not expect to have. Thus I have met … Continue reading The End of the Challenge #AtoZChallenge #WritersWednesdays
Of Glass & Paper 