Anais Nin

In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. 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 vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Her second volume of erotic writings, Little Birds, is also published by Penguin.

Delta of Venus

Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a confession that captivates the unknown man and soon inspires him to seek her out...

A Spy In The House Of Love

Anais Nin's second volume of erotic short stories is broader in scope, encompassing the entire breadth of human sensuality. Each of the 13 stories captures a moment of pure desire, in all its complexity and paradoxical simplicity.

Little Birds

When Anais Nin met the writer Henry Miller, a man she though of as an intellectual giant, and his beautiful wife June Mansfield, her life was plunged into emotional and sexual turmoil. Her passionate involvement with both of them, which contrasted profoundly with her attachment to her husband Hugo, led to an inner conflict she was unable to resolve without help. Henry and June is the account, taken from her diaries, of this thrilling but impossible tangle of relationships and of Anais Nin's personal and sexual awakening.

Henry and June

A na�ve model slowly discovering her sexuality; an erotic moonlight encounter on a beach; a man teaching the art of passion in a gypsy caravan; and a woman in love with a scent from Fez � Ana�s Nin�s stories explore the nature of sex and the awakening of desire. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love�s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love�

Eros Unbound

From the Unexpected Diary of Anais Nin

Diary of Anais Nin V04 1944-1947

David Clare

Jane Chamberlain

Miranda Simpson

Stories from Delta of Venus

Henry Miller

Kim Krizan

Volume 11 of A Café in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal contains excerpts from the unpublished diary of Anais Nin, topics of which include living in 1950s America, Nin's hateful relationship with Helba Huara, and fears of the havoc that publishing her diary could bring. The lead article involves a relatively unknown "scandal" in 1955, which centered on the release of a book entitled 'My Friend Henry Miller' by Miller's old pal Alfred Perles, in which the "secret" romantic relationship between Nin and Miller in 1930s Paris is revealed and how Nin desperately tried to have her name removed from the text. A series of letters by Nin, Miller, Perles and others give the reader an inside look of how what should have been a minor event instead resulted in a censored version of the Perles book, resulting in a lifelong bitterness towards Nin by Miller. Articles on the theme of incest in the works of both Nin and Lawrence Durrell appear in this issue, as well as memoirs, poetry, and web items of interest.

The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 11

A Cafe in Space

Volume 12 of A Café in Space contains original diary excerpts from Anais Nin regarding the infamous "come as your madness party," critical essays by numerous Nin scholars, rare photographs, book reviews, poetry and visual art.

The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 12

Linotte, the early diary of Anais Nin. 2. 1920 - 1923

Early Diary of Anais Nin: Volume Four 1927-1931

The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1914-1920

Linotte

Anaïs Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented. It was not until decades later, when the diaries were published in their unexpurgated form, that the world began to learn the full details of Nin's fascinating life and the emotional and literary high-wire acts she committed both in documenting it and in defying the mores of 1950s America. Trapeze begins where the previous volume, Mirages, left off: when Nin met Rupert Pole, the young man who became not only her lover but later her husband in a bigamous marriage.It marks the start of what Nin came to call her "trapeze life," swinging between her longtime husband, Hugh Guiler, in New York and her lover, Pole, in California, a perilous lifestyle she continued until her death in 1977. Today what Nin did seems impossible, and what she sought perhaps was impossible: to find harmony and completeness within a split existence. It is a story of daring and genius, love and pain, largely unknown until now.

The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

Trapeze

Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947

Diary of Anais Nin V02 1934-1939

Seduction of the Minotaur is an example of Anaïs Nin's most mature and cohesive fiction. The central character, Lillian, arrives in exotically primitive Mexico from New York, in part to forget her crumbling marriage and to find flow in her life after years of stasis. She befriends Dr. Hernandez, who, like Lillian, is also trying to forget, to escape, which he does with violence, shocking Lillian into facing her inner demon, the "Minotaur."Critic Oliver Evans says of Seduction of the Minotaur: "Its symbolism is the most complicated of any of Miss Nin's longer works...and at the same time it makes more concessions...to the tradition of the realistic novel: the result is a work of unusual richness."Consider this passage: "It was the time of the year when everyone's attention was focused on the moon. 'The first terrestrial body to be explored will undoubtedly be the moon.' Yet how little we know about human beings, thought Lillian. All the telescopes are focused on the distant. No one is willing to turn his vision inward... Such obsession with reaching the moon, because they have failed to reach each other, each a solitary planet!"Seduction of the Minotaur reveals Nin's struggle for self-awareness through her character Lillian. In a setting that is sumptuously described, with fully developed characters, the plot involves the dichotomy between civilization and the primitive, the dark and bright sides of human nature, with a conclusion that is classic Nin: enlightenment.

Seduction of the Minotaur

Tristine Rainer

Rupert Pole

Eduardo Pineda

Steven Reigns

This is the final issue of a 15 volume series, and it contains excerpts from Anais Nin's unpublished diary; previously unknown correspondence by Rupert Pole; essays on Nin, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Gonzalo More, Helba Huara, and Paco Miralles by scholars from around the world; interviews with John Teunissen, Nobuko Albery and Beatrice Commenge; memoirs, including one on Nin by Tristine Rainer; poetry, short fiction, rare photographs and artwork. Included is an index to all contributions to A Café in Space during its 15 year span and notes on this year's contributors.

The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 15

Benjamin Franklin V

Barbara Kraft

A Cafe in Space is the only literary journal dedicated to the life and work of Anais Nin and her contemporaries, including Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, D.H. Lawrence et al. Volume 13 includes an excerpt from the upcoming Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955, an introduction by Benjamin Franklin V, articles from Nin scholars on her writing and how life events influenced it, testimonies from women writers about how Nin shaped their work, a memoir by one of Nin's lovers, poetry, short fiction, photographs and news about upcoming events. Edited by Paul Herron."

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