What starts as a need for money to fund her and her literary friends lifestyles, the final postscript of this preface, added over thirty years later, sees a more philosophical Nin. Concentrate on sex.” She continues to submit them, the stories becoming more “outlandish, inventive and exaggerated.”
When she forwards her stories she is told to “…cut out the poetry and anything but sex.
Through her famous friendship with Henry Miller, she is encouraged to start contributing to Miller’s collection of stories for a book collector. The preface of Delta of Venus is taken from Nin’s The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume III, and explains how she came to create this collection of erotica. At the time we were all writing erotica at a dollar a page, I realised that for centuries we had had only one model for this literary genre – the writing of men.
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