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The unknown client who paid Anais Nin a dollar a page back in the 1940s to write erotica got his money's worth and to spare. After all, erotica is pornography with class, and Nih gives full measure of both: one feels her women who disrobe to some impetuous command were dressed in Paris, if not by Mainbocher at least in a Schiaparelli copy. Women wore garters then and men had buttons to their flies, articles now almost lost to the erotic imagination, as zippers and body stockings, too, will someday succumb to the march of progress. Nin boned up on Krafft-Ebing and the Kama Sutra to write these sensual episodes, and few rooms in the house of Eros are left unvisited, from pedophilia to sado-masochism. The truth is that she does it very well: slightly tongue-in-cheek, supremely unabashed - a woman of good family kicking up her French heels. This caviar was long denied the general public; once, no doubt, because of the puritanic temper of the times, and later because Nin feared that the words she wrote to order for a man (who proscribed poetry) would not throw any light on feminine sexuality. Luckily, she had second thoughts and released these pages before her recent death, and the only regret is that she won't be around to observe the delight they'll occasion. (Kirkus Reviews )
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Classic and still relevant,
By Joe Sifino (Santa Ana, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Delta Of Venus (Mass Market Paperback)
I was a little worried when the first story featured a pedophile, but the rest of the stories were hot. I guess what turned people on back then can still turn them on now. I liked the lives of the French painters and the women who loved them.
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should be a staple on one's bookshelf,
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This review is from: Delta Of Venus (Paperback)
Nin succeeded in creating a world of sensuality, lust tempered by love and even affection, reverence for art ... a beautiful place where one's desires can be fulfilled without shame or taboo. Definitely groundbreaking and still relevant. Highly recommended.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great writer for any generation,
By Z. Fields (Edmonton) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Delta Of Venus (Paperback)
I normally stick with a bestseller such as “A Million Little Pieces” or McCrae’s “Katzenjammer,” but decided to delve into this genre instead (though it is somewhat like the McCrae book in that it’s racy). So I bought a copy----of “Delta,” that is. After I read this book I told all my friends read it. This is really more than erotica and sex, this is a work of art. You change the way you look and think at sex and erotica. Every night I remember the book and wish to reread it again and again. The book I've given to everybody I know.
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