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Emmanuelle

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Classic Smut review! Half erotic memoir and half philosphical treatise on eroticism, this book is a quasi-autobiographical account of Emmanuelle Arsan's(pen name of Marayat Rollet-Andriane) sexual adventures in Thailand as a diplomat's wife. Needless to say, their marriage defines the term 'open'. She has many lovers and she and them both expound incessantly on the nature of eroticism.

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. ( )
2 vote lennynero | Nov 8, 2009 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Emmanuelle Arsanprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Artal, CarmenTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Carotenuto, AldoIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Holz-Fay, HenriTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kovič, BraneTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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To Jean.

Or if the women you portray

Represent a wish of your fanciful senses....

-Stephane Mallarme

L'apres-midi d'un faune
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Emmanuelle boarded the plane in London that was to take her to Bangkok. At first the rich smell of leather, like that preserved in British cars after years of use, the other wordly lighting, and the thickness and silence of the carpets were all she could grasp of the environment she was entering for the first time.
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Leta 1967, prav ob zori seksualne revolucije, se je na francoske knjižne police potihem priplazila knjiga, ki je na oddelkih z erotično literaturo postrojila v vrsto generacijo dvajset- in tridesetletnikov. Erotičnemu romanu s preprostim naslovom Emmanuel/e je posebno draž dajalo dejstvo, da ga je napisala ženska. Še več, Emmanuelle Arsan s pravim imenom Marayat Andriane (roj. 1932 v Bangkoku), anonimna pisateljica, občasna scenaristka in soigralka Steva McQueena v epskem vojnem spektaklu Topnjača Sond Peebles, naj bi v romanu popisala svojo lastno seksualno izkušnjo, popotovanje onkraj zapovedanih meja telesnega užitka in mesenega spoznanja. Senzualno zgodbo o spolno neizživeti ženi francoskega diplomata, ki se v eksotičnem okolju Tajske nauči uživanja v prelestih razvrata, je leta 1974 v svetovno uspešnico povzdignila ekranizacija Justa Jaeckina. Film Emmanuelle, v katerem je debitirala nizozemska misica Sylvia Kristel, je eksplodiral v kult evropske sofisticirane erotične produkcije. Jaeckina tako kot Arsanovo ni zanimal seks kot žanr ampakseks kot trend. Da pa bi seks postal trend, so mu morali nadeti glamurozno opravo. Emmanuelle je postala sinonim za žensko, ki jo zveza s stalnim partnerjem ne omejuje pri raziskovanju meja spolne ekstaze, svečenica svobodne ljubezni in promiskuitetni simbol poželenja. In ostala simbol ženske, ki v spolnih radostih ne želi uživati tako, kot uživajo moški, ampak tako, kot zna uživati ženska, ko moški umaknejo svoj pogled. (Opis na platnicah)
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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.

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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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