Return to Roissy

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Return to Roissy is a 1969 published sadomasochistic story of the French writer Anne Desclos (known as Dominique Aury ), they under the pseudonym Pauline Réage published. It is a continuation of her famous novel The Story of O. The author herself commented, however, that the pages are "deliberately a descent, and they must never be included in the story of O ".

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The story of O , published in 1954 , ends with a reference to a possible last chapter which has been deleted: In it, O returns to Roissy and is left there by Sir Stephen; in an alternate version, O - when she sees that Sir Stephen will leave her - wishes her death and Sir Stephen gives his consent. In the version of Return to Roissy , which was actually published later , Sir Stephen is ultimately wanted by the police for murder (of a business partner to whom he had left O at his disposal). O is afterwards declared by the manager of the castle that she is now free; however, she could stay if she wanted.

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The end of the story of O is considered a masterpiece of erotic world literature. Susan Sontag used the novel as an example of the legitimacy of high quality pornography as a literary genre in its own right. The return to Roissy appeared 15 years later. For some, the work is a useless continuation of history that they can happily do without. For others, however, history is a legitimate literary alternative that can always be found in the face of the possibilities of a modern world and must therefore be respected, or can only be seen as an intellectual alternative, as the author emphasizes in her foreword.

“Return to Roissy” (rororo pocket book number 4172, Rowohlt, Reinbek) was indexed as harmful to young people by the Federal Testing Office for media harmful to young people according to Federal Gazette No. 94 of May 22, 1982 .

An edition with accompanying text has been freely available since 2000 and is sold in large editions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Régine Deforges, Pauline Réage: The "O" told me. Background to a bestseller. Charon, 2000, ISBN 3-931406-25-3 (Interview, "The Story of O" and "Return to Roissy" in one volume)