I adored this book.

Anais Nin is a tour-de-force and her little collection of short stories is no exception. If you're new to Nin, this might be a really good place to start.

I really appreciate her as a writer and I love her writing style. I've had some people tell me that her writing is a little bit weird, but I think the most important thing for me is that she evokes an emotional response.

She wrote erotica from a female perspective at a time when erotica was mostly male-dominated and not a lot of women were published. ( )

Anais Nin − Eros Unbound

I was given this to read along with many others for a friend’s wedding. It went with the invite−part of the invite, with the intention of the guests discussing it at the event.

Initially it felt like Catherine Cookson porn. The female genitals appeared to be called ‘my sex’ ‘her sex’ quite a lot which is amusing. Nin died in 1977. These are collections of non- sequitur stories that appear quite Chekovian in form, but less convincing in plot−some seem to end very abruptly. They obviously seem tame now in the ever expanding genre of erotica, but at the time they may well have been an advancement of feminism, as they deal with lust/desire rather than love most of the time.

I enjoyed the stories more and more as I read them−I stayed up late to finish the collection, which has to be a good sign.
So at least now I will be able to discuss the collection at the wedding and be able to find out if the bride and groom are being ‘post-ironic’? If it turns into an orgy instigated by the stories−I will be leaving early and going to bed… with a good book.

The writing IMP ( )