She explains how she had very much dismissed her work at the time because she felt that she had compromised her literary voice to accommodate her client’s whims. I loved the Preface, which is partly composed of excerpts from Anaïs’ own diaries, circa 1940-41, along with a brief Postscript by the author herself, dated September 1976. It just meant leaving ‘Little Birds’ temporarily unfinished. Luckily, I had both of them in my personal library, so it was an effortless transition. When I discovered that, in revisiting ‘ Little Birds‘, I was reading the wrong book for the Venus Envy book club, I immediately tossed it aside to barrel through the month’s actual selection, ‘Delta of Venus’. It becomes a bore.” – Anaïs Nin, December 1941
“Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession.
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. Summary: In Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents.
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