This little book of short stories is by far some of the finest erotica ever written. Nin is a true master of love, lust, and the body’s betrayal of our innermost desires. Nin writes with a simple elegance. Never overdoing the imagery, we get just what we need to feel the work without a crass micr...
Less Poetry!Most of the stories in "Delta of Venus" were written under a quasi-Oulipean constraint: they were commissioned by a collector of erotica who specified, "Concentrate on sex. Leave out the poetry."Anais Nin initially complied. However, "I began to write tongue-in-cheek, to become outlan...
Another part to Nin's larger Cities of the Interior collection. We meet Djuna again in Paris, this time with her lover, Rango. He has a boat on the Seine which is where most of their trysts take place. However, in typical Nin fashion, Rango is already married to the questionably mad Zora, and ...
Collages explores a world of fantasy and dreams through an eccentric young painter. A radical work in its time (1964), Anais Nin dispensed with normal structural convention and allowed her characters to wander freely in space and time in an attempt to describe life with the disconnected clarity o...
I'm a lover of Anais Nin's fiction, and Winter of artifice is one of the greats. A spiderweb, a veil--you either love her or you hate her. The first story in this collection--in my edition of it, all of them are different, for historical/censorship reasons. The history of the publication of this ...
I want to spread myself on lots of paper, turn it into lots of sentences, lots of words so that I won't be walked on.- Anais NinNin's Incest is an explosive, emotional confession; an illuminating self analysis and in-depth psychological study of her soul. Relentlessly probing and insightful, Nin ...
Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.
Anaïs Nin has some of the most eloquent, honest quotes I have ever seen; her way of writing is an observation of life, love, and human interaction that is unabashedly lifelike that you immediately find yourself in her work, even if she is simply writing a passing thought in her diary documentatio...
How does one review published diaries? According to literary merit? Though Anais Nin is a beautiful, insightful writer, I feel strange talking about her "writing style" when discussing a section of her journal. What I will talk about instead is the way that books often come into your life at a ti...
Nin has a way of capturing people through their relationships, making them fluid, as we all are, in their travels with one another. This is a narrative quality I have always found brilliant, and it allows the characters in the work to become recognizable, almost as if they were written from one's...
The cafes were richer even than the oriental cities where all living was plied openly under your eyes so that you were offered all the activities of the world to touch and smell. You saw your shoes being made from the skinning of the animal to the polishing of the leather. You saw the weaving of ...
In this biography of a highly gifted but little known woman artist, Meryle Secrest combines lucid psychological insight with empathy in a deep exploration of character and relationships. She brings into vivid life a lost segment of art history. She has the skill and power to recreate history in...