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Emmanuelle 3: The Anti-Virgin

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Crepax has done a good job with this modern classic of erotic writing, keeping his promise of being "erotic but not vulgar." He stays lose to Arsan's original story, rendering it in his distinctive style of pen-drawings, delicate and based on lines rather than tones. The result is generally satisfying. It's a well-styled piece of adult story telling, but never quite finds whatever it is that makes a visual story truly memorable.

For one thing, Crepax's comic rendering suffers all the weaknesses of the original story, including a washed-out central character and some passages where French philosophy is injected like literary Novacaine. Then, the story displays Crepax's own manner (or flaws) as an illustrator. His signature style emphasizes line at the expense of volume and mass. His characters sometimes suffer oddly asymmetric features, a distortion with no apparent narrative purpose. Still, he renders figures with real passion, even the unusual figures such as Bea, and especially those figures in the throes of passion.

Crepax's Emmanuelle is far better drawn, in both pictures and words, than most 'adult' comics. It's truer to the book than Sylvie Kristal's movie. It's enjoyable in many ways, but I can give it only a lukewarm recommendation. Lots of erotica out there is at least as satisfying - maybe this will work for you, but maybe not.

//wiredweird

This book is currently not in print. Furthermore the author is listed as Guido Crepax, a name I'm not only not familiar with, but to add injury, is a so called "erotic writer". The book reviewed under this title has nothing to do with Sandor Kopacsi's work, a serious historical recollection of 1956. Please remove the book and the review from the catalog immediately.