Story of O: A Classic Erotic Novel - Perfect for Adult Readers & Book Club Discussions

Histoire d'O (Story of O) is among the most misunderstood books ever written. Most people, and most tragically, women, regard the book as a specimen of 1950's period porn, and read it accordingly. They are members of the same group of compact slappers who spent most of their humanities classes dreaming about the romantic encounter they never would have, but to comfort themselves, in the end convince themselves that they did. They know little of western culture, less of their own cultural memory, have never read a lick of Sade or Nietzsche, the two great shapers of the late modern mindset from which the book emerged.Let's simplify. To this day, no one knows who Pauline Re'age is. Despite the enormous success of the book, she has never appeared in public. Even the publisher has claimed to have never met the author! Now, if we remove the Parisian "e' " from the the name - what do we have? RAGE.And that is exactly what Story of O is - a testament to 12,000 years of the most vile abuse ever perpetrated on one being by another, the history of man's brutal treatment of women, how men manipulate women to turn their own natural sexual inclination in upon themselves, to devalue, debase, and eventually destroy themselves. All O's lover (hater), Rene, has to do is mention those three "magic" words "I love you", and conditioned over millennia of patriarchal madness, she will submit to anything, even death itself.Story of O is the original post-modern feminist tract, the most powerful and passionate ever penned, with juxtaposed congeries of images benign and maleficent in such rapid fire presentation that acquiesence to the magisterial and deeply tragic nature of the work cannot be denied.