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Loading... Emmanuelleby Emmanuelle Arsan
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0802130690, Paperback)This now classic book of erotica is, alongside Story of O, the most famous French underground novel of the late twentieth century and a work of seductive literary merit. Written by the wife of a diplomat in the French Foreign Service, it takes the form of an autobiographical novel, which it may or may not be. As the story opens, Emmanuelle is boarding a plane in London to rejoin her husband in Bangkok. She finds herself powerfully compelled by the overnight passenger seated beside her, and before she has landed, her irrepressible sensual nature has begun to open wide vistas of sexual possibility. As the novel continues, she moves easily from the waiting arms of her husband to intimacies with the wives of his business associates to further explorations and experiences in which the subtle aesthetics of eroticism are expounded-and enacted-to their fullest. Emmanuelle, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies since its initial clandestine publication in France, relates the movement of a woman from an unconscious to a profoundly conscious sexuality. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:32:58 -0400) Emmanuelle's husband Jean married her for her 'erotic genius', not to possess her. The only solution to Emmanuelle's passion is through a mentor; a man who will guide her through her deepest fantasies - unveiling languid tales of discovery in the close heat of the Orient.… (more) |
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The sex scenes and most of the first half of this book are just great, with that subtle prose that one gets from a well translated smutty, French book. It's in the second half with the introduction of the character of Mario and his philosophical lectures on man over nature, love, eroticism and fulfillment where it really stops the reader cold. Mario comes off as a pretentious windbag who takes up a lot of pages. At the same time, it's fascinating to read as it's a great snapshot of the pop philosophy of the time and is so French and of the period. It was first published in the underground in the late 1950's, and was officially published in 1967. A must for any fan of classic smut. (