Sorry, yes, her name was Anne Desclos & she wrote it because Jean Paulhan
said to her that only a man could write a really sizzling erotic novel; in
my memory, this last statement had become true, out of an odd mixture of
male chauvinism & political correctness (because of the way the novel
debases women ~ in my menory, at least, I read it decades ago. Paulhan
regarded the book as a love letter...)
Martin
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