Le Lien

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Le Lien
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Author: Vanessa Duriès
Language(s) English
Publisher Magic Carpet Books
Released Nov 30, 2005
Paperback 160 pages
Dimensions 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
Weight 0.8 ounces
ISBN-10 0976651017
ISBN-13 978-0976651017

Le Lien

Le lien is the only novel written by Vanessa Duriès.

This is an autobiographical story. It tells the story of Laika, a young student, who is initiated to BDSM and then her evolution as a slave, and also of her growing love relationship with her master, Pierre. It also provides some insight into the devastating effects of the revelation of her sexual orientation on her relationship with her parents.

After enduring years of corporal punishment by her father, a young and very much beautiful Vanessa realizes that `Not having the nature of an Amazon, not knowing how to oppose violence with cruelty, I learned to dominate those who used me by making the offering of my submission both mystical and ambiguous' ...... and thus is born a female slave into the somewhat secretive world of S&M in France in the 1990s.

Right from the first chapter, `The Revelation', the author introduces us to Pierre, her much `loved' master whom she meets at the age of twenty. In the book, without delving into any of the details of their introduction we find a young Vanessa, although apprehensive about her secret feelings, completely accepts and resigns herself to her `slave' state of mind and body when she visits Pierre at his countryside mansion. Although Pierre is her master, the author maintains an absolute dedication to her feelings, emotions, thrills, and fears as she is introduced and educated into the true and dedicated sadomasochistic lifestyle of a slave master relationship.

This is, in effect, the mastery of this wonderful young author and the point at which other S&M books totally fall apart since it's pretty well impossible for either the master or the slave to completely comprehend and, honestly write about, the erotic mindset of the other. With the precision of a whip, Vanessa intricately describes her slave education in the hands of not only her master but also, of course, a small and very much secretive group of other masters and slaves, both male and female.

Vanessa unabashedly describes her relationship with awe that she is living the life of total sexual and physical abandon with her much-loved master. In her own words, `Pierre is an organizer beyond compare. Since sharing his life. we schedule usually quite eventful weekends throughout the year. When we return, on Sunday evenings, I often find myself in a state close to exhaustion. Pierre is no less tired than me. The role of the master is exhausting, because, while the slave only submits, the master must decide, organize, prepare and take action, all the while watching over the physical and psychic state of the slave that he has decided to honor through tests and humiliation.'

One very sad note, unfortunately, Vanessa Duries died in a traffic accident in 1993 about seven months after the publishing of this masterwork, truly a loss from a very much talented writer.

Finally, the book has an introduction by Marie Isabel Pita one of today's hottest writers of contemporary erotica, and an afterword by Maxim Jakubowski where he briefly describes the discovery of the lost French edition of this book and his investigation into the last years of the life of the author.

Further reading

  • The Ties that Bind (translated from the French) - Masquerade Books

Also see the page [ Library ] and/or [ Life Lessons ]


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