Still, it made for an intriguing collection:ġ. Naturally she added her own touches, but between them and the client, I wonder where she fit in. Interestingly, some of the stories are not even Nin’s own: they were recounted to her by some of her friends and peers and she adapted them. He wanted cold, clinical descriptions, which was understandably disliked by these authors.īut they needed money, and he paid one dollar a page – which, at the time, was a cushy gig to say the least. I understand: he was having them strip all emotion, sensuality, poetry, anything that made the material feel real. She and her peers started writing “erotica” for this wealthy man but his demand for less flourishes led to them losing interest and vilifying him. She explains how she had very much dismissed her work at the time because she felt that she had compromised her literary voice to accommodate her client’s whims. I loved the Preface, which is partly composed of excerpts from Anaïs’ own diaries, circa 1940-41, along with a brief Postscript by the author herself, dated September 1976. It just meant leaving ‘Little Birds’ temporarily unfinished.
Luckily, I had both of them in my personal library, so it was an effortless transition. When I discovered that, in revisiting ‘ Little Birds‘, I was reading the wrong book for the Venus Envy book club, I immediately tossed it aside to barrel through the month’s actual selection, ‘Delta of Venus’. It becomes a bore.” – Anaïs Nin, December 1941 “Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Summary: In Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents.
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