Delta of venus by anaïs nin6/8/2023 ![]() In the 1940s she began to write erotica for an anonymous client, and these pieces are collected in Delta of Venus and Little Birds (both published posthumously). Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas, collected as Winter of Artifice (1939). 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. Delta of Venus Erotica by Anais Nin, published by Harcourt, Book Club Edition, 1977. 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. Her name was apt for her because it meant grace in Hebrew. ![]() Her mixed descent is the cause behind her rare name, which is pronounced as Anayees Nin. ![]() 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. Anais Nin was a diarist and author of international repute who was a French-Cuban American. ![]()
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