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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
todos podemos concordar que Elena foi o melhor conto desse livro.
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Some stories are shocking and disturbing. Some stories are exciting and full of lust. Nin sure knows how to talk about sex provocatively and bluntly, but I think I’ll try a less sex driven book of her next time.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
so beautiful, dark, sensual, erotic and way ahead of it’s time! anaïs is a mastermind of eroticism and the writer of passion
Whatever the fuck this is… it’s NOT erotica. This is a damn criminal case file.
Sick to my stomach wtf
Sick to my stomach wtf
There was a time when Anais Nin and Henry Miller were strapped for cash, as struggling artists. They met a rich dude whose "friend" was willing to pay them good money if they wrote erotica for his personal collection. The two artists, with money being hard to come by, and themselves being of the sexually liberal Parisian spirit, said OK, fuck it.
And so the stories of Delta Venus were born.
This collection is fetish-filled and often times just for the sake of satisfying their proprietor's desire. But Nin also flexes her poetic talent as a writer, and it's what make this collection worth a read.
Sometimes the stories go deeply into the psyche and history of a sexually frenzied character, revealing a complex psychology and positing sexual desire as both completely natural and completely unique from person to person.
There are stories in here, especially the last one, in which Nin attempts to breakdown the communication barriers of the sexs, having characters spend a night exploring whatever fantasies they want and then letting them discuss openly their favorite sensations and their bodies.
But those are the hidden gems of this collection. Overall it's main purpose is to stir the lusty imagination. But Anis Nin's skill as a writer and a poet come through nonetheless and, I think, justify this book as literature, separate and distinct from the cheap thrills of a book like 50 shades of grey.
And so the stories of Delta Venus were born.
This collection is fetish-filled and often times just for the sake of satisfying their proprietor's desire. But Nin also flexes her poetic talent as a writer, and it's what make this collection worth a read.
Sometimes the stories go deeply into the psyche and history of a sexually frenzied character, revealing a complex psychology and positing sexual desire as both completely natural and completely unique from person to person.
There are stories in here, especially the last one, in which Nin attempts to breakdown the communication barriers of the sexs, having characters spend a night exploring whatever fantasies they want and then letting them discuss openly their favorite sensations and their bodies.
But those are the hidden gems of this collection. Overall it's main purpose is to stir the lusty imagination. But Anis Nin's skill as a writer and a poet come through nonetheless and, I think, justify this book as literature, separate and distinct from the cheap thrills of a book like 50 shades of grey.
Hailed as the first American woman to publish erotica and creator of "the female language for sexuality," Anaïs Nin wrote most of the stories in Delta of Venus in the 1940s, but they weren't published as a collection until 1977 after her death. Nin mentions the difference between the masculine and feminine experiences of sex but doesn’t go into detail. She notices “explicitness” vs. “ambiguities” in the work of her male cohort and her own, and their patron (who paid $1 a page for these stories) expressed a preference for explicitness. Nin covers a broad range of sexualities, preferences, fetishes, etc., however, she ultimately favors a gender binary with the ultimate gratification coming from penile-vaginal penetration. Relationships–sexual and romantic–only seem to work if there’s a masculine and feminine presence. I had to continually remind myself of the fantasy aspect of Nin's work as almost none of these sexual encounters mention contraception, STIs, or unwanted pregnancy. The lines of “fantasy” and “preference” begin to blur and then be crossed by depictions of rape, incest, and pedophilia, all of which appear in the book and beg the question of whether there are fantasies that should never be indulged no matter how imaginary. Though sexuality hasn't necessarily changed since Nin's time, understanding, language, and acceptance all have.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual content