The power of the book lies exactly in the anguish stirred up by the continuing presence of this paradox. "But what Story of O unfolds is a spiritual paradox, that of the full void and of the vacuity that is also a plenum. 'O' suggests a cartoon of her sex, not her individual sex but simply woman it also stands for a nothing” (55). “O's quest is neatly summed up in the expressive letter which serves her for a name. "A bare inventory of the plot might give the impression that Story of O is not so much pornography as meta-pornography, a brilliant parody." -" The Pornographic Imagination" by Susan Sontag The novel was strongly criticised by many feminists, who felt it glorified the abuse of women." See Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating (1974) and Susan Griffin " Sadomasochism and the Erosion of Self: A Critical Reading of Story of O" in Against Sadomasochism, (1982)." Although this is in fact a shortening of the name Odile, it could also stand for " object" or " orifice", an O being a symbolic representation of any " hole". The heroine of the novel has the shortest possible name, consisting solely of the letter O.
"A critical view of the Story of O is that it is about the ultimate objectification of a woman. "HER LOVER one day takes O for a walk in a section of the city where they never go - the Montsouris Park, the Monceau Park."
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