Editing Vanessa Duriès

{{Short description|French novelist}}
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'''Vanessa Duriès''', also known as '''Katia Lamara''' (1972 – 13 December 1993), was a French novelist.<ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Vanessa Duriès |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12315651x |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=17 April 2022 |language=French |date=}}</ref> She was the author of two novels; ''Le lien'' and ''L'Étudiante''.

==Biography==
[[File:Le lien cover art.jpg|thumb|Cover illustration of ''Le lien'']]
Duriès was the author of the French [[BDSM]] novel ''[[The Ties that Bind (novel)|Le lien]]'' (translated into English as ''[[The Ties that Bind (novel)|The Ties that Bind]]'')  allegedly based on her own experience as a [[Master/slave (BDSM)|BDSM slave]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture | first1=Alex | last1=Hughes | first2=Keith | last2=Reader | publisher = CRC Press | year=1998 | isbn=0-203-00330-6 | page=188 }}</ref> 

She created quite a stir in France at the time of the release of the novel, due to her youth and beauty, and appeared on national television, in particular in the show of [[Bernard Pivot]]. She also appeared in a [[Image|pictorial]] and interview in the May 1993 issue of the French edition of ''[[Penthouse magazine|Penthouse]]'' magazine.

Duriès died at the age of 21 in a car crash on 13 December 1993 in the South of France. Because of her early death, she has achieved a [[Cult following|cult]] status for some [[BDSM]] communities. In 2007, five chapters of her second novel ''[[L'Étudiante (novel)|L'Étudiante]]'', left unfinished due to her death, were published in France.

Three other people also died in the crash. The 2007 edition published in Paris by [[Groupe Flammarion|J'ai Lu]]<ref>"L'Étudiante suivi de Le Lien", Éditions Blanche, {{ISBN|978-2-290-00617-7}}</ref> which includes an ''[[avant-propos]]'' by Duriès' editor Franck Spengler and a preface by Florence Dugas, is dedicated: "À la mémoire de Vanessa Duriès, Nathalie Perreau, Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris et leur fils décédés tragiquement le 13 décembre 1993". 

Spengler avows he was editor to Nathalie Perreau, also, and a friend of [[Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris]]. Published in this edition is a short letter written by Duriès to Franck Spengler, inserted between chapters two and three of "L'Étudiante".

==L'Étudiante==
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'''''L'Étudiante''''' is the second novel by [[Vanessa Duriès]].

Like ''[[The Ties that Bind (novel)|Le lien]]'', Vanessa Duriès's first novel, this is an autobiographical story. It has not been completed, since Vanessa Duriès was killed in a car accident when it was being written.

This second novel puts in parallel her very special kind of sexuality and her life as a student in [[Bordeaux]]. As in ''Le lien'', she is very clear and blunt when she describes her BDSM scenes, but she also describes her interest for the quieter love lives of her fellow students, love lives which she pokes fun at but that nevertheless exert some fascination on her, leading her to a clear analysis of the SM milieu.

Although it was written in 1993, it was only published in 2007 in the form of a joint volume with ''Le Lien'' by the Éditions Blanche.

The cover image of the book is taken from Vanessa Duriès's pictorial for the French edition of ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]''.

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ''[[The Ties That Bind (novel)|The Ties That Bind]]'' (translated from French) - Masquerade Books - {{ISBN|1-56333-688-X}}
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* ''Le lien'' (in French) – Editions J'ai lu – {{ISBN|2-290-30700-9}} 

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