Emmanuelle|Emmanuelle Arsan Rollet-Andriane 902340405X

||boek: Emmanuelle|vertaling marianne kuik|BB Literair

||door: Emmanuelle Arsan Rollet-Andriane

||taal: nl
||jaar: 1974
||druk: 2e druk
||pag.: 267p
||opm.: softcover|gelezen

||isbn: 90-234-0405-X
||code: 2:000218

--- Over het boek (foto 1): Emmanuelle ---

De roman Emmanuelle schenkt de lezer een rechtstreeks - door geen mannelijke pen beroerd - inzicht in de puur seksuele sensaties van het meisje Emmanuelle, opgeroepen met en zonder hulp van andere vrouwelijke en mannelijke lichamen.

In tegenstelling tot het eveneens bij De Bezige Bij verschenen 'Het verhaal van O' - een ietwat strenge, volgens sommigen zelfs kuise studie in pornografie - verspreidt Emmanuelle onder de lezers een warme, gelukzalige opwinding.

Emmanuelle is geschreven in een volledig ontspannen en charmante stijl.

[bron: https--www.stormybooks.nl/a-54310573/romans/emmanuelle-arsan-emmanuelle/#description]

This 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.

It begins with nineteen-year-old Emmanuelle's flight from London to join her husband in Bangkok. On the airplane, she is seduced by the passenger seated next to her. By the time they land, she has indulged her irrepressible and insatiable sexual appetite, embarking on an odyssey of hedonistic sensual discovery that takes her from the arms of her husband to intimate encounters with the wives of his business associates, to further explorations wherein the philosophical and aesthetic facets of eroticism are expounded--and enacted--to the fullest degree.

Intoxicating and intelligent, Emmanuelle, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies since its initial clandestine publication in France, follows one woman's liberation from unconscious to intensely conscious sexuality. It is as pertinent today as it was four decades ago.

[source: https--www.standaardboekhandel.be]

Schijnbaar autobiografische roman van Emmanuelle Arsan, waarin de seksuele ontdekkingsreis van het personage wordt beschreven. De setting wordt gevormd door de luxueuze onderkomens van het diplomatenkorps in Thailand. Emmanuelle vertrekt uit Frankrijk om zich te herenigen met haar man die werkt in de omgeving van Bangkok. Terechtgekomen in een verveelde gemeenschap van decadente expats lijkt seks de enige uitvlucht om de exotische sleur te ontvluchten.

[bron: https--www.boekmeter.nl]

[2009-01-08]

I could easily write a cop-out, only-read-Playboy-for-the-stories type of review here. Lot of very interesting philosophical insights, perhaps a bit too much sex, that kind of thing. Fellow GoodReaders, I cannot lie to you. Nothing could in fact be further from the truth. I wolfed down the first two-thirds of this book, which consist of one juicy sex scene after another. Then she met dull, creepy, manipulative Mario, and we got started on the philosophy. I felt my eyes closing. I tried several times to read further, but I just couldn't do it.

I was assailed by horrible pangs of guilt. Ms. Arsan is clearly not stupid (she originally wanted to be an astronomer - I did too!), and she writes quite well. She just happens to be much better at writing about sex than philosophy. But she seemed to have put a lot of work into the philosophy, and it was terrible that I didn't even read that part of the book. I almost thought I'd somehow taken advantage of her.

Well, Emmanuelle, everyone has things they're good at and things they just wish they were good at. I understand that Bertrand Russell's Principia Sexualis was a complete flop, and that he humiliated himself further by unsuccessfully trying to sell the movie rights. He only started to recover a little when they gave him the Nobel Prize. It's possible that that story isn't literally true in every detail, but I really and truly don't want you to feel bad about this unfortunate episode. It's my fault, not yours.

Manny [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

[2018-01-08]

Sometimes we just need stereotypes to be confirmed: after all is said and done, we find in conventional ideas the last staple of our decaying culture.

The Thai writer Emmanuelle Arsan (actually Marayat Bibidh or Krasaesin or Virajjakkam or, for Heaven's sake, there seem to be a hundred more) became - lucky her - Madame Rollet-Andriane by marrying a French diplomat she met while still in her teens. He was 30. The happy couple moved to Bangkok soon after the ceremony... and the real fun began for both.

As soon as Miss Telephone Directory became Madame R.-Andriane, the discreet charm of the 50s haute bourgeoisie swallowed her down in its receptacle of easy pleasure and glamourous lust, a world of muffled boredom and glittering sins, too high up for anybody to care about any sort of private respectability or cheap moralism: as long as careers are not affected, anything can be done and nobody is going to complain.

Here's the triumphant cliché of the degenerate, parasitical, lazy, bored to death upper class... no doubt the most arousing cliché of all.

Now, the novel.

• Sigh *

This is her first novel, the first of a long series, written in 1959 and published clandestinely in France. By 1974, when J. Jaeckin's film version was made out of the first volume, it had become a classic and a milestone in all-time erotica.

The protagonist is the young and beautiful Emmanuelle, who joins her diplomat husband in Bangkok (there COULD be something self-referential here) where she's immediately introduced to the fancy élite gravitating around the French diplomacy.

After a first class flight spent mostly in a stranger's arms, and this is clearly a euphemism, Emmanuelle is warmly welcomed by the female high society she now belongs to; nobody can resist her beauty, and the generous attitude with which she shares it among her new acquaintances definitely helps.

She also meets Mario, a homosexual Italian expat (thanks a lot, Marayat.. that's what we needed, really) living in Bangkok, enjoying gorgeous youths and huge amounts of opium; this man, for whatever reason, takes Emmanuelle to sort of a brothel and opium den, where he hands her over to some locals (presumably on the mama-san's payroll). This is supposed to be part of the girl's education; we all wonder whether she actually needed his contribution anyway. In the meantime, Mario keeps philosophizing and giving his precious advice on eroticism and self-consciousness to his otherwise busy pupil.

And then... well, that's all.

From the point of view of literature, this novel is mediocre. And I'm being quite generous.

The eroticism is due mostly to the bourgeois setting. I mean, the protagonist's sexual exploits are not exactly memorable. Arsan has an annoying tendency to sugarcoat what should be the mere description of sex and pleasure by the use of ridiculous metaphors and a verbal virtuosity she doesn't master at all. The writing is not too bad, but it's just not intriguing. After a decent start, the reader ends up being more interested in the description of the exotic landscape than anything else, as though shifting from a soft-core film to a National Geographic documentary.

Except that this is supposed to be an erotic tale, not a Lonely Planet guidebook.

The only merit of this book is the depiction of the moral climate of the high-class milieu it portrays. Let aside the dialogues, in which the shallowness is less voluntary than spontaneous, the author is good at rendering the sense of lazy abandonment of her characters; maybe it's just me, but there seem to be a gloomy atmosphere permeating the book, almost imperceptible in the blinding light of this torrid cliché.

(Trivia: Sylvia Kristel is just great in the 'official' film series, but I still prefer the Venezuelan actress playing Emmanuelle in the 1993 tv series, Marcela Walerstein. Her beaverish front teeth are an absolute turn-on).

Fede [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

--- Over (foto 2): Emmanuelle Arsan Rollet-Andriane ---

Marayat Rollet-Andriane, formerly Marayat Krasaesin or her birthname Marayat Bibidh (RTGS: Marayat Phiphit; born 19 January 1932 - 12 June 2005), known by the pen name Emmanuelle Arsan, was a French novelist of Thai origin, best known for the novel featuring the fictional character Emmanuelle, a woman who sets out on a voyage of sexual self-discovery under varying circumstances. It was later claimed that the real author of the book was her husband, Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane.

Arsan was born Marayat Bibidh on 19 January 1932 in Bangkok, Thailand, into an aristocratic Siamese family closely connected to the royal family. Marayat's family home was in the affluent Ekkamai District of the Thai capital, where she reportedly discovered her sexuality in the company of her little sister Vasana.

After attending primary school in Thailand, Marayat was sent by her parents to Switzerland to continue her studies at the extremely selective Institut Le Rosey boarding school, located in Rolle, Canton of Vaud. The school offered a bilingual English-French education to the offspring of the international elite. At a ball there in 1948, the 16-year-old Marayat first met her future husband, 30-year-old French diplomat Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. Although it was love at first sight, they did not marry until 1956, then settled in Thailand, where Louis-Jacques was given a diplomatic posting at the UNESCO mission in Bangkok.

Bangkok in the late 1950s was a relatively small, secretive, and highly respectable city. It was not yet the open-air brothel that it would become during the mid-1960s and early 1970s. That change was partly due to the Vietnam War, when thousands of off-duty U.S. servicemen, assigned to the US Air Force airbases in Thailand, flooded the capital's streets in search of cheap sex. They were soon to be followed by Western tourists.

Within the selective atmosphere of the Sports Club, Louis-Jacques and Marayat, with their hedonistic philosophy of communal sex, quickly created a sensation among the expatriate interlopers, diplomats, pseudospies, bored spouses, and jet-setters who drifted in and out. As a result, the couple's reputation soon spread beyond the restricted circle of the initiated and turned the Thai capital into a popular destination for swingers. At this time, they had their first encounter with the idle Italian Prince Dado Ruspoli, who belonged to the international playboy elite of the 1950s and whose discourse on sex had a profound impact on Marayat and Louis-Jacques. They immediately made Dado their "spiritual guide" and "high priest of love".

In 1963, Louis-Jacques was posted to Italy, and for five years, the couple resided in both Venice and Rome, where they again met Ruspoli. He introduced them to the high society of transalpine libertinage. From 1968 to 1980, Marayat and her husband often alternated between Paris and Bangkok.

The novel Emmanuelle was initially published and distributed clandestinely in France in 1959, without an author's name. Successive editions were ascribed to Emmanuelle Arsan, who was subsequently revealed to be Marayat Rollet-Andriane. Though the novel was sometimes hinted to be quasi-autobiographical, it was later revealed that the actual author was her husband Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. Several more novels were published under the Emmanuelle Arsan pseudonym.

Between 1974 and 1976, Arsan and her husband, in association with Just Jaeckin, published the erotic magazine Emmanuelle, le magazine du plaisir (Emmanuelle, the pleasure magazine) in France, contributing photographs and text.

Following the success of the eponymous 1974 film adaptation of her novel, directed by Just Jaeckin, Arsan was the titular director and scriptwriter of the film Laure (1976) about the sexual discoveries of a younger "Emmanuelle" named Laure, again in an exotic setting. The film was in fact directed by Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane and Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli, though Rollet-Andriane, reportedly frustrated by problems related to his collaboration with the producer, Ovidio G. Assonitis, asked that Emmanuelle Arsan's name not be associated with the project, resulting in the film being credited to an anonymous director.

Using the screen name "Marayat Andriane", Arsan appeared in the film The Sand Pebbles (1966), and in an episode of the American series The Big Valley ("Turn of a Card", 1967). Although she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, she never worked as an actress for that company again. Her only other film appearance, credited as Emmanuelle Arsan, was in Laure, which was also released under the alternative title Forever Emmanuelle.

Marayat spoke fluent Thai, French, and English. Her hobbies and passions included writing, reading, photography, cinema, and antiques, among others. Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane and she had two daughters, Sophie and Danièle. She is known to have had relationships with the French beatnik writer, mime, and photographer Théo Lesouac'h, and allegedly with the American actor Steve McQueen, during the shooting of The Sand Pebbles, although what really went on between them remains a mystery.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Louis-Jacques and Marayat decided to settle down in France for a much quieter life. An Iranian friend offered the couple a plot of land in the south of the country, near the commune of Callas, in the Var. It was in this woodland domain they constructed their retirement place, "Chantelouve d'Emmanuelle", an isolated single-storey house built around a vast patio. Louis-Jacques continued with his writing, happy to correspond with Emmanuelle's fans under his pen name Emmanuelle Arsan, while Marayat, her dreams of stardom far behind her, was content to grow old gracefully, with the occasional visit to Bangkok. It was at this point that Nitya Phenkun entered their lives. She was an old acquaintance of Louis-Jacques, having been his secretary (and mistress) during his diplomatic posting in Bangkok, and on moving to Chantelouve, she took up her former functions, reportedly forming a threesome with the Rollet-Andriane couple.

Their idyll was shattered in 2001, when Marayat suddenly fell ill. She was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma, a rare and incurable autoimmune disease, which had first given her trouble at the age of 20. After a period of remission that had lasted for 49 years, the disease returned and attacked her legs, causing her acute suffering and rapidly affecting her mobility. Her health further deteriorated when gangrene rapidly ensued, and both of her legs had to be amputated above the knee. She was, therefore, forced to spend the remaining four years of her life bedridden, being treated at home by a private nurse. Marayat Rollet-Andriane died on 12 June 2005 at Chantelouve, aged 73. Her husband died three years later, in April 2008.

Nitya Phenkun, the sole beneficiary of the copyright of Emmanuelle, returned to Thailand soon after Louis-Jacques' death, and put Chantelouve up for sale.

Books In French

• 1959 Emmanuelle - Éric Losfeld (clandestine edition), 308 pages
• 1960 Emmanuelle L'anti-vierge - Éric Losfeld (clandestine edition), 356 pages
• 1967 Emmanuelle - La leçon d'homme - Paris, Éric Losfeld, Le Terrain Vague, 232 pages
• 1968 Emmanuelle - L'anti-vierge - Paris, Éric Losfeld, Le Terrain Vague, 296 pages
• 1968 Epître à Paul VI (Lettre ouverte au pape, sur la pilule) - Paris, Éric Losfeld
• 1969 Nouvelles de l'érosphère - Paris, Éric Losfeld, Le Terrain Vague, 215 pages
• 1969 Dessins érotiques de Bertrand vol. 1- Pistils ou étamines, une liesse promise - Paris, Eric Losfeld
• 1971 Emmanuelle à Rome (under the pseudonym Bee Van Kleef) - Paris, Eureditions, 280 pages. reprint: Montréal, Les Presses Libres, 1972. reprint: Toulouse, Livre d'Oc, 1979. reprint: Paris, Belfond, 2013
• 1974 Mon "Emmanuelle", leur pape, et mon Éros - Paris, Christian Bourgois, 219 pages
• 1974 L'Hypothèse d'Éros - Paris, Filipacchi, 287 pages
• 1975 Les Enfants d'Emmanuelle - Paris, Opta, 317 pages
• 1976 Laure - Paris, Pierre Belfond, 312 pages
• 1976 Néa - Paris, Opta, 264 pages
• 1978 Toute Emmanuelle - Paris, Pierre Belfond, 224 pages
• 1979 Vanna - Paris, Pierre Belfond, 315 pages
• 1983 Sainte louve - Paris, Pierre Belfond, 352 pages
• 1988 Les Soleils d'Emmanuelle - Paris, Pierre Belfond, 264 pages. reprint: Paris, Belfond, 2013
• 1988 Emmanuelle (Première édition intégrale) [first unabridged edition] - Paris, Robert Laffont/Jean-Jacques Pauvert
• 1989 Les Débuts dans la vie - Paris, Le Grand Livre du mois, 191 pages. reprint: Paris, Belfond, 2013
• 1989 Valadié - Paris, Éditions Lignes, 190 pages
• 1991 Chargée de mission - Paris, Pierre Belfond, 201 pages
• 1993 Bonheur - Les Cahiers de l'Égaré, 91 pages
• 1994 Aurélie - Paris, Pierre Belfond, 213 pages. reprint: Paris, Belfond, 2013
• 2003 La Siamoise nue - Paris, Le Cercle, 552 pages
• 2008 Bonheur 2 - Les Cahiers de l'Égaré, 125 pages
• 2008 Parce qu'ils ne pouvaient pas s'en empêcher, in: Disparition by Michel Bories, Les Cahiers de l'Égaré, 250 pages
• 2016 La Philosophie nue - Éditions Le Sélénite, 116 pages

Books In English translation

• 1978 Nea A Young Emmanuelle. Translated by Piano, Celeste. St Albans, Herts.: Granada. ISBN 0583-13053-4. OCLC 1017218723.

Film

• 1966 The Sand Pebbles
• 1967 The Big Valley (episode "Turn of a Card")
• 1976 Laure

[source: wikipedia]

Emmanuelle Arsan was born on January 19, 1932 in Bangkok, Thailand. She is known for Forever Emmanuelle (1976), The Sand Pebbles (1966) and Emmanuelle 2000 (2001). She was married to Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. She died on June 12, 2005 in Chantelouve, Callas, Var, France.

[source: imdb]

Emmanuelle Arsan (1932-2005) [2020-06-11]

Morgen zal Marayat Rollet-Andriane (formerly Marayat Krasaesin or her birthname Marayat Bibidh), maar best bekend onder haar auteursnaam Emmanuelle Arsan (van de gelijknamige Emmanuelle-boeken) al vijftien jaar overleden zijn. Een lange en pijnlijke doodstrijd is aan haar overlijden vooraf gegaan.

In het interview dat ik met haar had, stelde Sylvia Kristel reeds: "In werkelijkheid was haar man de auteur. Hij was diplomaat en kon dergelijk werk natuurlijk nooit onder eigen naam publiceren." En dat wordt nu bevestigd door Wikipedia: "It was later claimed that the real author of the book was her husband, Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane."

Over Emmanuelle zelf voegde Sylvia er nog aan toe: "Die Arsan, die zag aanvankelijk niks in mij. Voor haar was ik een lang Hollands scharminkel zonder sex-appeal. Later is ze bijgetrokken."

Arsan was born Marayat Bibidh on 19 January 1932 in Bangkok, Thailand, into an aristocratic Siamese family closely connected to the royal family. After attending primary school in Thailand, Marayat was sent by her parents to Switzerland to continue her studies at the extremely selective Institut Le Rosey boarding school, located in Rolle, Canton of Vaud. The school offered a bilingual English-French education to the offspring of the international elite. It was at a ball there in 1948, that the 16-year-old Marayat first met her future husband, the 30-year-old French diplomat Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. Although it was love at first sight, they did not marry until 1956, then settling in Thailand, where Louis-Jacques was given a diplomatic posting at the UNESCO mission in Bangkok.

Bangkok in the late-1950s was a relatively small, secretive and highly-respectable city. It was not yet the open-air brothel that it would become during the mid-1960s and early-1970s. That change was partly due to the Vietnam War, when thousands of off-duty U.S. servicemen, assigned to the US Air Force airbases in Thailand, flooded the capitals streets in search of cheap sex. They were soon to be followed by Western tourists.

It was within the selective atmosphere of the Sports Club that Louis-Jacques and Marayat, with their hedonistic philosophy of communal sex, quickly created a sensation among the expat interlopers, diplomats, pseudo-spies, bored spouses, and jet-setters who drifted in and out.

The novel "Emmanuelle" was initially published and distributed clandestinely in France in 1959, without an author's name. Successive editions were ascribed to Emmanuelle Arsan, who was subsequently revealed to be Marayat Rollet-Andriane. Later, several more novels were published under the Emmanuelle Arsan pseudonym.

Using the screen name "Marayat Andriane", Arsan appeared in the film "The Sand Pebbles" in 1966 (during the shooting she had allegedly an affair with co-actor Steve McQueen), and in an episode of the American series "The Big Valley" (1967). Although she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, she never worked as an actress for that company again. Her only other film appearance, credited as Emmanuelle Arsan, was in "Laure" (1976), which was also released under the alternative title "Forever Emmanuelle".

Following the success of the film adaptation "Emmanuelle" (1974) directed by Just Jaeckin, Arsan was even the titular director and scriptwriter of the film, "Laure" about the sexual discoveries of a younger "Emmanuelle" named Laure, again in an exotic setting. The film was in fact directed by Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane and Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli, though Rollet-Andriane, reportedly frustrated by problems related to his collaboration with the producer, Ovidio G. Assonitis, asked that Emmanuelle Arsan's name not be associated with the project, resulting in the film being credited to an anonymous director.

In de "Emmanuelle"-films vinden we eigenlijk de "superioriteit" van de vrouwenliefde terug, opperde ik tegen Sylvia Kristel.

"De mooiste scènes zijn met vrouwen, ja. Ik heb zelf nooit een afkeer gehad van De Man, al zal ik me misschien wel eens mentaal lesbisch gevoeld hebben. Ik denk dat dit in iedere vrouw zit: eerst de liefde voor de eigen sekse en pas dan kun je klaar zijn voor de andere soort. Deze scènes zijn dan ook heel mooi, lief, teder en sensueel (b.v.Emmanuelle, die na een partijtje squash de lusten opwekt van haar tegenstandster, RDS) en ze waren voor mij ook eenvoudiger om te doen, omdat er dan een betere verstandhouding is. Zo in de zin van: wil je je hand niet hier leggen, dan ziet men die zwangerschapsstrepen niet. Al moet ik wel zeggen dat Just een meester is in het regisseren van dit soort dingen. Niet dat hij het zo goed kan zeggen; hij legt het meer uit met handen en voeten. Hij maakt er een choreografie van en kan het tegelijk toch als erg natuurlijk doen overkomen. Op de meest intieme momenten werd de ploeg tot vijf personen teruggebracht en werd er in absolute stilte gewerkt, ofwel met klassieke muziek."

Misschien daarom dat Goedele Liekens in haar boek "Ons seksboek" de film aanraadt als een betere erotische film? In de Gazet van Antwerpen van 30/10/2007 argumenteert ze dat als volgt tegenover Sylvia Kristel zelf: "Omdat jij dankzij je rol van Emmanuelle erotiek uit het verdomhoekje hebt gehaald. Eeuwenlang was erotiek een vies woord in onze westerse samenleving, maar dankzij die films werd het mooi en aanvaardbaar. In één woord kan ik daar over zeggen: respect!"

Maar daar staat dan weer tegenover dat de scènes met een man bijna steeds uitdraaien op vernedering of verkrachting met geweld. De scène met de groepsverkrachting werd in Engeland trouwens verboden omdat daaruit zou moeten blijken dat een vrouw daar uiteindelijk toch plezier aan beleeft.

"Nou daar ben ik blij om. Dat die scène is geschrapt, bedoel ik. Ik vond het ook verschrikkelijk om het te doen. Er was bijna een grote ruzie over ontstaan op de set. Ten eerste weigerde ik mijn onderbroek uit te trekken (kom nou, Sylvia: mijn slipje zal je bedoelen!), want we hadden niet eens een tolk en sommige van die kerels dachten dat het écht moest gebeuren. Ik zeg dus: zonder broek doe ik het helemaal niet. De cameraman pruttelde tegen, maar ik zei: het maakt me niet uit hoe je het dan filmt, maar die broek blijft aan. Ook Alain Cuny, die als Mario de aanstichter van de scène speelde (een acteur die vooral in artistieke middens erg bekend was; hij speelde vele Shakespeare-rollen en had banden met de surrealisten, met Jean Vilar, Madeleine Renaud en Jean-Louis Barrault; hij stierf op 16 mei 1994 op 85-jarige leeftijd) was die mening toegedaan. Maar goed, die producenten staan daar met hun dikke sigaren te zwaaien en dan hebben we die scène toch maar gedraaid."

Eigenlijk is het een soort van SM-scène?

"Ja, Alain Cuny of beter gezegd: Mario in de film vond dat dit nodig was in het kader van de seksuele opvoeding, want dan zou je het hogere kunnen begrijpen en weet ik veel wat voor gelul. Maar ik vind dat toch louter een mannelijke fantasie. Ook in het gewone leven neem ik liever zelf het initiatief. Maar alles bij elkaar vielen die scènes me toch niet zo moeilijk. Ik ben namelijk vreselijk bijziend en ik zag dus nauwelijks met wie ik te doen had."

De scène is ook een afknapper als einde. Tenzij dat men duidelijk een vervolg in het vooruitzicht stelt.

"Ze wisten helemaal niet hoe ze eruit gingen komen. Ik ben zelfs nog eens naar Parijs moeten gaan om een alternatief einde te draaien, namelijk de scène met de twee heren. Maar uiteindelijk heeft men die dan nog voor die andere scène geplaatst. Nou ja, ik had toch niet het gevoel dat ik in 'Gejaagd door de wind' aan het spelen was..."

Nee, maar hij heeft wel bijna evenveel geld in het laadje gebracht! Dat ze ooit een humoristische versie van "Emmanuelle" wou maken met een script van Hugo Claus is geen fabeltje, ook al is die film er nooit gekomen. In "Privé" is ooit verschenen dat ze het scenario van Hugo te slecht vond, maar dat is hoegenaamd niet waar. "Nee, ik vond het juist heel leuk, want er kwam b.v. het Russische element in naar voren, maar toen viel plotseling de muur van Berlijn en had het allemaal niet zoveel zin meer. De slechteriken konden geen Russen meer zijn. Bovendien heeft het ook te maken met mijn toenmalige echtgenoot (Philippe Blot) die dat zou produceren, maar dat bleek dus hoegenaamd geen goede zakenman te zijn en daarom is het niet doorgegaan."

Between 1974 and 1976, Arsan and her husband, in association with Just Jaeckin, published the erotic magazine "Emmanuelle, le magazine du plaisir" in France, contributing photographs and text. In the eighties Nitya Phenkun entered their lives. She was an old acquaintance of Louis-Jacques, having been his secretary (and mistress) during his diplomatic posting in Bangkok, and now reportedly forming a threesome with the Rollet-Andriane couple.

Their idyll was shattered in 2001, when Marayat suddenly fell ill. She was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma, a rare and incurable genetic disease which had first given her trouble at the age of 20. After a period of remission that had lasted for 49 years, the disease returned and attacked her legs, causing her acute suffering and rapidly affecting her mobility. Her health further deteriorated when gangrene rapidly ensued, and both of her legs had to be amputated above the knee. She was therefore forced to spend the remaining four years of her life bedridden, being treated at home by a private nurse.

Marayat Rollet-Andriane died on 12 June 2005 at Chantelouve, aged 73. Her husband Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane died three years later, in April 2008. Nitya Phenkun, the sole beneficiary of the copyright of Emmanuelle (although Marayat and Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane had two daughters, Sophie and Danièle), returned to Thailand soon after Louis-Jacques' death.

[bron: https--ronnydeschepper.com/2020/06/11/emmanuelle-arsan-1932-2005/]

Nationalité: France
Né(e) à: Bangkok , le 19/01/1932
Mort(e) à: Chantelouve (France) , le 12/06/2005
Biographie:

Emmanuelle Arsan, née Marayat Bibidh, de nom d'épouse Marayat Rollet-Andriane, née selon les sources en 1932 ou en 1940, à Bangkok, est une romancière française d'origine thaïlandaise.

Elle épouse en 1956 un diplomate français, Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. En 1966, sous le nom de Marayat Andriane, elle joue le rôle de Maily aux côtés de Steve McQueen et de Richard Attenborough dans La Canonnière du Yang-Tse (The Sand Pebbles) de Robert Wise.

Mais c'est surtout comme écrivain qu'elle sera célèbre, en publiant chez Éric Losfeld, sous pseudonyme, son roman Emmanuelle (1959) qui sera aussitôt interdit de publicité. Cela ne l'empêchera pas d'obtenir un succès planétaire et de faire l'objet d'une quinzaine d'adaptations cinématographiques.

Selon certains témoignages, le véritable auteur des romans signés Emmanuelle Arsan aurait été non pas Marayat Rollet-Andriane, mais son époux.

Emmanuelle Arsan a également signé le scénario d'un film, Laure, sorti en 1975, où elle tient également un rôle secondaire, et dont la réalisation (non signée) lui a été attribuée.

Selon des critiques et des témoignages de membres de l'équipe, le film aurait été écrit et en partie réalisé par son époux, une autre partie de la mise en scène étant assurée par le producteur Ovidio G. Assonitis.

[source: wikipedia]