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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
"What a marvelous summer. I think everybody knew it would be the last drop of pleasure."
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Erotic literature is a subtle thing. Like a soap bubble, it must know how to catch your eye, hold your breath, and make you want to touch it and participate in its development, yet you know it is fragile and fleeting.
Anaïs Nin has this grace of the soap bubble. She arrives, by a sure and clear language, but never vulgar or coarse, to walk you along with the bodies of the women and the men, without making you blush, but by raising puffs of voluptuous desire.
To read accompanied if you wish to read by episodes. To read alone to embrace Anaïs literary class and learn what makes eroticism tremendous and correct.
Let us turn our backs on the Puritans. They know what they are losing, which they had done for them.
Anaïs bodies are too loving without restraint.
Anaïs Nin has this grace of the soap bubble. She arrives, by a sure and clear language, but never vulgar or coarse, to walk you along with the bodies of the women and the men, without making you blush, but by raising puffs of voluptuous desire.
To read accompanied if you wish to read by episodes. To read alone to embrace Anaïs literary class and learn what makes eroticism tremendous and correct.
Let us turn our backs on the Puritans. They know what they are losing, which they had done for them.
Anaïs bodies are too loving without restraint.
In this collection of short erotic tales the reader is greeted by Nin's razor sharp language tucked within layers of poetic prose. She feels no remorse at throwing the reader outside of their comfort zone with surprising morbid twists dealing with uncommon fetishises.
Perhaps the most admiral aspect of the collection is the diverse representation of heterosexual and homosexual relationships, in addition to characters who knowingly push the boundaries of gender expectations, making it a work of art still relevant in today's society.
Most shockingly perhaps, was the clear difference in sexuality between woman and man, showcasing the difficulty of being a sexually active woman. In addition to this frustration, Nin also dances around the thin line of consensual sex and rape, demonstrating how quickly one can be turned into the other.
Perhaps the most admiral aspect of the collection is the diverse representation of heterosexual and homosexual relationships, in addition to characters who knowingly push the boundaries of gender expectations, making it a work of art still relevant in today's society.
Most shockingly perhaps, was the clear difference in sexuality between woman and man, showcasing the difficulty of being a sexually active woman. In addition to this frustration, Nin also dances around the thin line of consensual sex and rape, demonstrating how quickly one can be turned into the other.
there were times where you could clearly see the constraints placed on her by the commissioner but anais still manages to tell stories about female desire and sexuality that leave you empathetic to the inner struggles of women in time period
sometimes it feels like nin is the babitz to de beauvoir's didion
sometimes it feels like nin is the babitz to de beauvoir's didion
Ok, no. This book revealed what limits to the erotic imagination I would very much prefer to maintain, thank you. I regret picking up Anaïs Nin in this form. Right on it's a very fiery, escalating read. I almost wanted, even waited to be thrilled. However, too much violence in the content had me very disturbed and triggered. It is not okay to make a fantasy of slitting somebody's vagina, for example.
I would never recommend this especially not to folks who have had experiences of sexual assault.
I would never recommend this especially not to folks who have had experiences of sexual assault.