Collected in one volume: two women, spouses to
French literary figures, setting out to top their husbands in every
way possible. The Image, by "Jean de Berg" (Catherine Robbe-Grillet)
so thrilled her husband, a somewhat better-known Alain, that he wrote
a nifty preface to her work, signing off as "Pauline Reage." And Diane
Bataille, who'd heard quite enough about her spouse, author and erotic
bibliographer Georges, decided one day to pen The Whip Angels, having
it published by Maurice Girodias' infamous Olympia Press under the
name "XXX." These two classic works of sexuality were published in '55
and '56, bookending the Story of O. The Olympia Press is pleased to
bring both of these classics of female-penned BDSM in a single
edition.
