Delta Of Venus

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547538677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review). Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. 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. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from a master of erotic writing. "Inventive, sophisticated . . . highly elegant naughtiness."—Cosmopolitan

Fragments from the Delta of Venus

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: powerHouse Books
ISBN: 9781576871829
Category : Erotic painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Fragments from the Delta of Venus is an amazing collaboration between feminist artist Judy Chicago and Iconic writer Anais Nin, where Chicago's paintings illustrate Nin's most sensual passages from her classic collection of erotic stories.

Artists and Models

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141022369
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55

Book Description
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. A major inspiration for the early feminist movement, Anais Nin became notorious following the publication of her sensual journals. Penguin publish a wide range of Nin's books, including the sensuous Delta of Venus. Originally written in the 1940s, these stories are mesmerizing explorations of art, power and passionate desire by one of the most eloquent writers of erotic literature.

Winter of Artifice

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 9780720608526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The Veiled Woman

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241339541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Noveller. Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces

Writing an Icon

Author: Anita Jarczok
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0804040753
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Before Madonna and her many imitators, there was Nin; yet, until now, there has been no major study of Nin as a celebrity figure. In Writing an Icon, Anita Jarczok reveals how Nin carefully crafted her literary and public personae, which she rewrote and restyled to suit her needs and desires. When the first volume of her diary was published in 1966, Nin became a celebrity, notorious beyond the artistic and literary circles in which she previously had operated. Jarczok examines the ways in which the American media appropriated and deconstructed Nin and analyzes the influence of Nin’s guiding hand in their construction of her public persona. The key to understanding Nin’s celebrity in its shifting forms, Jarczok contends, is the Diary itself, the principal vehicle through which her image has been mediated. Combining the perspectives of narrative and cultural studies, Jarczok traces the trajectory of Nin’s celebrity, the reception of her writings. The result is an innovative investigation of the dynamic relationships of Nin’s writing, identity, public image, and consumer culture.

Anais Nin

Author: Suzanne Nalbantian
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134925505X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This book of essays is the first to probe Anais Nin's achievements as a literary artist. With an introduction by the editor, Suzanne Nalbantian, the collection examines the literary strategies of Nin in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions. Various contributors scrutinize Nin's artistry, identifying her unique modernist techniques and her poetic vision. Others observe the transfer of her psychoanalytical positions to narrative. The volume also contains fresh views of Nin by her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell as well as innovative analyses of the reception of her works.

Short Story Index

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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NASA Activities

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings

Author: Anthony Swindell
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110782200
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
This book sets out to provide a matrix for surveying the literary treatment of biblical tropes. It supplies an overview of the literary reception of the Bible from the earliest times right through to contemporary writers such as Jeanette Winterson and Colm Tóibín, traces the literary reception and treatment of the Book of Job; the figure of Uriah in the narrative of David and Bathsheba; the figure of Lilith; and Angels of Death and of Mercy. These are all handled as specimen histories. This is followed by an examination of the output of several specific early and later Twentieth-Century rewriters of the Bible. In the last chapters, three sets of other writers under particular headings ("the Great Disrupters" etc.) are grouped together with a view to finding common characteristics as well as unique features in their approach to biblical tropes and provide conclusions and suggestions for further research.