How does story of o end

Read more from the Study Guide. Browse all BookRags Study Guides. Copyrights Story of O from BookRags. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation. Sign Up. Sign In. Get Story of O from Amazon. View the Study Pack. Order our Story of O Study Guide. Plot Summary. Chapter 1, Part 1 pp. Chapter 1, Part 2 pp. Chapter 1, Part 3 pp. Chapter 2, Part 1 pp. Chapter 2, Part 2 pp. Chapter 2, Part 3 pp. It is interesting to note that Jean Paulhan, who was the author's lover and the person to whom she wrote the story of O in the form of love letters, wrote the preface, "Happiness in Slavery".

Paulhan admired Sade's writing and had told Desclos that a woman couldn't write something like that. She took it as a challenge and wrote the book. Paulhan was so impressed that he sent it to a publisher. Interestingly, in the preface, Paulhan goes out of his way to appear as if he does not know who wrote the book.

In one part he says, "But from the beginning to end, the story of O is managed rather like some brilliant feat. It reminds you more of a speech than of a mere effusion; of a letter rather than a secret diary. But to whom is the letter addressed? Whom is the speech trying to convince?

Whom can we ask? I don't even know who you are. That you are a woman I have little doubt. At times, the preface read with the knowledge of Paulhan and the author's relationship , seems to be a continuation of the conversation between them. For the ending, Paulhan states, "I too was surprised by the end. And nothing you can say will convince me that it is the real end. That in reality so to speak your heroine convinces Sir Stephen to consent to her death" xxvi.

French director Henri-Georges Clouzot wanted to adapt the novel to film for many years. The film met with far less acclaim than the book. A Brazilian miniseries in ten episodes with Claudia Cepeda was made in by director Eric Rochat, who was the producer of the original movie. It is as if the previous simplicity suddenly required an additional veneer of solidity.

The house of Roissy is explained in detail and we begin to learn a little more about the characters and their place in the world. Money enters the equation O no longer works as a photographer and now accepts payment from visitors to Roissy , and lingers like the cause of so much mathematics.

We are told how many days, how many women, how many hours, how many men — as if the earlier simplicity remember Aury recalled the first hundred pages just flowed from her hand needed reinforcing, by way of simple sums. And finally, as though another writer had stepped into the breach, we have diamond mines and murder, and newspaper-headline intrigues.

It seems finally Sir Stephen is out of the picture completely and O is free to go her own way. There is an unfortunate darkness, a coarseness, to the proceedings. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.

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