Talk:Emmanuelle Arsan

She's not the author?

This article claims that "Emmanuelle" wasn't really written by Marayat Rollet-Andriane, or at least not by herself alone. The relevant link is unfortunately dead. Does anyone have another reference? Maikel (talk) 14:34, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

I have in the mean time seen the extra on the Laure-DVD where producer Ovidio Assonitis claims (convincingly, in my opinion) that Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane wrote ALL the Emmanuelle-stories, but published it under pseudonym because he (at least initially) was a UNESCO diplomat (presumably it was also a good marketing move to publish them under a woman's name). The claim that a diplomat wrote the novels is congruent with their intellectual-philosophical claim.

His wife Maryat later took on the "Emmanuelle Arsan" persona. According to Assonitis, she was a Thai actress, although "not really" an actress. In Laure, where she plays an extensive supporting role, you can see why, she's very pretty but she can't act all that well. Maikel (talk) 12:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't know why we should believe Assonitis, he worked only with Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. He was not there when the novels were written. And if it's true, why did he wait so long to tell the "truth" ? I think it's just a trick to increase the sales of his dvd. And also, because people don't want to believe that a woman can write erotic novels. As long as we don't have any other confirmation, we shouldn't include this "info" in the article. maria 16:15, 8 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.250.140.211 (talk)

Assonitis isn't the only person who stated this version. Also Annie Belle, Al Cliver, Roberto D'Ettore Piazzoli and other ones. So, we HAVE other confirmations! Besides, Assonitis didn't wait "so long": in many italian film-magazines he told this truth since many years ago. Coguar76 19:46, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Arsan died in 2007?

IP-address 92.37.216.162 added the date 12.06.2007 as Emmanuell Arsan death. The only confirmation of that I could find was the IMDB-database. But IMDB also says she was born 1928, not as here stated 1932. Did she die? And when was she born? Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 10:05, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

IMDb is not a reliable source for important information such dates of birth and death as anyone can edit it. We need an obituary or news article. --Racklever (talk) 06:31, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

You are right. Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 07:48, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

French wikipedia has ovguide.com as the source. Maybe somebody should check if that source is reliable? I could, but I have no idea how that is determined. 85.217.41.106 (talk) 02:46, 21 July 2014 (UTC)