A Spy In The House Of Love

Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, "Henry and June" is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year - from late 1931 to the end of 1932 - during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. She fell in love with June's beauty and Henry's writing and, soon after June's departure for New York, began a fiery affair with Henry, which liberated her sexually and morally but undermined her marriage and led her into psychoanalysis. One question dominated her thoughts: what would happen when June returned to Paris? That event took place in October 1932, leaving Nin trapped between two loves - Henry and June.

As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsIn 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.This edition includes a preface adapted from Anaïs Nin's diary that establishes a context for the work's gestation, and a postscript to her diary entries in which she explains her desire to use 'women's language, seeing sexual experience from a woman's point of view'.Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), born in Paris, was the daughter of a Franco-Danish singer and a Cuban pianist. Her first book - a defence of D. H. Lawrence - was published in the 1930s. Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas, collected as Winter of Artifice (1939). In the 1940s she began to write erotica for an anonymous client, and these pieces are collected in Delta of Venus and Little Birds (both published posthumously). During her later years Anaïs Nin lectured frequently at universities throughout the USA, in 1974 and was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters.If you enjoyed Delta of Venus, you might like Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Anaïs Nin excites male readers and incites female readers ... and she comes against life with a vital artistry and boldness'The New York Times Book Review

1944: sono anni, ormai, che Anaïs Nin vive a New York, eppure la costante di estraneità e disagio è sempre viva in lei. Rifiuta l'integrazione in un mondo unidimensionale e cristallizzato, lotta contro l'ottusità, il grigiore delle persone che incontra, che non sanno cosa sia la gioia, la serenità, la musica, che "sono o fatte d'acciaio e cemento o ridotte a cavallo da soma". L'unica via da seguire, l'unica risposta a un modo di vivere autentico, è sempre la stessa: concentrazione sul rapporto di ogni di ogni singolo con i suoi singoli e con le cose. Il mondo di Anaïs Nin esclude ogni forma di snobismo, ogni essere umano è unico e irripetibile ed è per questo che nel suo diario troviamo lo stesso interesse per sconosciuti e personaggi celebri. Prefazione di Antonio Debenedetti. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.