This edition includes a preface adapted from Anais Nin's diary that establishes a context for the work's gestation, and a postscript to her diary entries in which she explains her desire to use 'women's language, seeing sexual experience from a woman's point of view'.Īnais Nin (1903-1977), born in Paris, was the daughter of a Franco-Danish singer and a Cuban pianist.
Her vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. Next in the first two of those categories is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara my top unread non-genre fiction book is now Fanny Hill by John Cleland.Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. This was my top unread book acquired in 2016, my top unread book by a woman and my top unread non-genre fiction book. A lot of erotica is single-themed to the point of monotony this certainly isn't. The story of "Elena" takes up more than a quarter of the book I actually found the following story, "The Basque and Bijou", the most interesting as the two named characters try various things to different degrees of satisfaction. Classic erotica short stories, varying quite a lot in length, subject matter and (frankly) appeal. This bulge would appear unexpectedly at any hour-while the class read Don Quixote or Rabelais, or sometimes while he merely watched the boys, and one boy in particular, the only fair-haired one in all the school, with the eyes and skin of a girl. Under his long brown robe the boys had often noticed a bulge which the younger boys could not explain and which older boys laughed at behind his back. NwhyteSecond paragraph of third chapter: Among them was a very dark-skinned Jesuit who had some Indian blood, the face of a satyr, large ears glued to his head, piercing eyes, a loose-lipped mouth that was always watering, thick hair and the smell of an animal.
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