Sex & The Book / Lust and unscrupulousness without limits in Emmanuelle's extreme eroticism
Who is Emmanuelle Arsan, Emmanuelle's literary mother, a character who in a very short time became an archetype of female eroticism? Born in Bangkok to a Siamese aristocratic family in 1932 with the name of Marayat Bibidh, she spent her childhood in Thailand, before studying in a prestigious Swiss college. There she met the thirty-year-old French diplomat and UNESCO official Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane, who she married in 1956, and then lived with him between Bangkok and Paris. After the publication of the novel Emmanuelle, Marayat achieved unprecedented success that led her to found, together with her husband, an erotic magazine, to live film and television experiences as an actress, to pose naked for important photographers and to weave clandestine relationships such as that chat and alleged with Steve McQueen . Starting in the 1980s, she retired with Louis-Jacques to a large farm in the south of France, where she died in 2005 of a serious and rare genetic disease, diagnosed only four years earlier.
Emmanuelle, freed from her anguish, panted, more liquid and warm with every movement of the phallus. Almost fed by her, it increased in volume, and her movements in amplitude and speed. Through the fog of her happiness, she was able to wonder that the ram's stroke could be so deep in her belly. His organs, he thought, had not really atrophied, in all the months in which they had not been stimulated by a male spur. Now he wished to take full advantage and as long as possible of the newfound pleasure.
Until 1967 the publication of Emmanuelle it was banned in France due to its scandalous contents, but this did not prevent the novel from circulating clandestinely, delivering it to an almost immediate and unparalleled success, making Emmanuelle a sort of champion of female sexual liberation. Although the most famous remains the 1974 film with Sylvia Kristel, there are no count of film and television adaptations, the more or less authorized sequels, focused on the figure of the beautiful and unscrupulous girl with an exotic charm discovering her own unsatisfactory eroticism. And if for a long time the novel was considered largely autobiographical, the subsequent revelation - never fully confirmed - that it would not have been written by Marayat, but the husband Louis-Jacques, inspired by his wife, passed on quietly, perhaps by way of of a shrewd marketing assessment.
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Do you believe that the lines you have read have already brought you to the climax of the story? You are wrong, we are only on the first pages and the story has yet to begin. For now, we simply know this: Emmanuelle is a nineteen-year-old girl who married a French engineer a few months earlier and is flying to Bangkok. But the journey is long and, in that relaxed and timeless atmosphere, Emmanuelle - a blanket on her legs - begins to fantasize and fantasize about feeling arousal, until the stranger who travels next to her decides to turn her thoughts into reality, satisfying his desires ...
Emmanuelle's erotic adventures will continue in Bangkok, where she will weave a series of dangerous relationships with other men and especially with other women - the icy Ariane, the lolita Marie-Anne, the amorous Bee - belonging to the restricted and bored caste of wealthy expatriates. Westerners, leading an existence entirely devoted to pleasure. Is it perhaps pure lust or is there more to the story of Emmanuelle? Because hers appears to us as a search, the search for something that not even she would know how to give a name, but which has a lot to do with the delicate boundary between personal freedom and love. Is there a need for eros as an end in itself to get rid of one's limits? Can sex and feeling coexist peacefully or will our innate animal impulse, once caged, end up making us suffer? Read Emmanuelle's story and maybe you will find the right answer for you.
by Giuliana Altamura
Here you can read the previous appointment with the column, Sex & The Book / Ménage à trois, research of the extreme and unbridled eroticism according to Almudena Grandes
