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
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Régine Desforges and Pauline Réage: O m’a dit
I will be posting here the whole text of Régine Desforges' s interview of Pauline Réage, author of Histoire d'O (© 1975, 1995 Éditions Jean-Jacques Pauvert). Régine Deforges interviews Pauline Réage in 1975, twenty one years after "Histoire d’O" was published (1954). Régine is then forty, and in 1968 founded her own publishing house, “L’Or du … Continue reading Régine Desforges and Pauline Réage: O m’a dit
#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
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/2
Avant-Propos O m'a dit/1 RD - You say somewhere, about a man in a bar - it's in the preface to Retour à Roissy - [Une Fille Amoureuse] a man of your age says: "Have you seen that man, in his fifties, how good he looks, I don't understand that women are only interested in … Continue reading #WW O m’a dit/2
#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
#amreading: The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
“You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of the likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment to pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?” ~ Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending I … Continue reading #amreading: The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
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