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The Veiled Woman
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?'
Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of erotic fiction.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of erotic fiction.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
56 pages, Paperback
First published February 22, 2018
About the author
Anaïs Nin
360 books9,507 followersWriter and diarist, born in Paris to a Catalan father and a Danish mother, Anaïs Nin spent many of her early years with Cuban relatives. Later a naturalized American citizen, she lived and worked in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Author of avant-garde novels in the French surrealistic style and collections of erotica, she is best known for her life and times in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volumes I-VII (1966-1980).
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October 4, 2020
No one:
Nin: his/her sex
Just say pussy u pussy
1970s porn
Nin: his/her sex
Just say pussy u pussy
1970s porn
December 30, 2020
i am simply going to say that they don't write them like this anymore and leave it at that.
2.5ish
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tbr review
felt equal parts cool and embarrassed buying this at the bookstore
2.5ish
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currently-reading updates
why NOT add some spice to a tuesday afternoon
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tbr review
felt equal parts cool and embarrassed buying this at the bookstore
April 4, 2023
in the female gaze we trust
linda was my fave
short stories of ✨erotica✨ mostly from women’s perspectives
they felt like little vignettes, like diary entries of sexual encounters someone doesn’t want to risk loosing from their memories so preserves them in writing
the pursuit of pleasure, female agency in desire, sex for sex’s sake is esp important when it comes to women bc it’s sex for fun and not for procreation
ive bought more of Nin’s books and now I’m extra glad I did
also lmao most of the pornography written before this was by men…think about that for a bit (Sade, Cleland, Sacher-Masoch im looking at you guys…yah nasty)
is there’s a difference between smut and erotica tho?
linda was my fave
short stories of ✨erotica✨ mostly from women’s perspectives
they felt like little vignettes, like diary entries of sexual encounters someone doesn’t want to risk loosing from their memories so preserves them in writing
the pursuit of pleasure, female agency in desire, sex for sex’s sake is esp important when it comes to women bc it’s sex for fun and not for procreation
ive bought more of Nin’s books and now I’m extra glad I did
also lmao most of the pornography written before this was by men…think about that for a bit (Sade, Cleland, Sacher-Masoch im looking at you guys…yah nasty)
is there’s a difference between smut and erotica tho?
May 10, 2018
Okay, so it’s basically my own fault for not properly researching what I was reading. I knew of Anaïs Nin as a writer of fiction and essays, so when I picked up this slim volume of short stories, I thought little of it. But as it turns out, she also wrote erotic literature. I’ve reviewed quite a few graphic novels during this 100 Book Year, but this is my first set of graphic short stories. And by graphic, I don’t mean it has pictures. I took this to read this on the train, and as my misconception became clearer, found myself regularly glancing anxiously at the woman next to me in case she could read the content of the page I was on and now considered me a Public Transport Pervert.
It’s important to consider these stories in their proper context. Nin, a complex and controversial character, wrote mostly in the 1940s within a circle of mostly-male literary elite, and sought to find her place at the lead of it. She’s widely considered ground-breaking in the West as a woman writing explicitly (in every sense) about female sexual desire and experience.
These stories reflect that perfectly. Of the four, only one is written from the perspective of a man, and even that is about how he can figure out how to please his paramour rather than obtain his own pleasure. The others, written from first-person female perspectives, explore transgressive desires and fantasies as well as the complex system of highs and lows that define the particular ways that women experience sexuality. Which is obviously all very highbrow stuff to deliver through the medium of loads of doin’ it.
There’s some stuff to make you uncomfortable here. Her characters’ relationship with prostitution doesn’t generally feel realistic, although one does have an experience that makes it clear that her expectations and reality weren’t particularly aligned. But given that she was writing at a time when female sexuality was just starting to become unstuck from some of the moral bindings that had constricted it, it feels important that she’s writing about these things without judgement – since judgement was pretty much all women had had around sex for a long time.
The writing is really strong and vivid, although you can tell that erotica is still in development as a genre. I’m not sure many people would include the description moaning like a pigeon in modern-day erotica. But she is able to develop characters in depth in a very short amount of time, which is impressive. There's also some genuinely beautiful writing in there.
Overall: a really interesting piece of writing from its time, that in many ways still stands up today. And if you saw me reading it on the train, it was for research, honest.
It’s important to consider these stories in their proper context. Nin, a complex and controversial character, wrote mostly in the 1940s within a circle of mostly-male literary elite, and sought to find her place at the lead of it. She’s widely considered ground-breaking in the West as a woman writing explicitly (in every sense) about female sexual desire and experience.
These stories reflect that perfectly. Of the four, only one is written from the perspective of a man, and even that is about how he can figure out how to please his paramour rather than obtain his own pleasure. The others, written from first-person female perspectives, explore transgressive desires and fantasies as well as the complex system of highs and lows that define the particular ways that women experience sexuality. Which is obviously all very highbrow stuff to deliver through the medium of loads of doin’ it.
There’s some stuff to make you uncomfortable here. Her characters’ relationship with prostitution doesn’t generally feel realistic, although one does have an experience that makes it clear that her expectations and reality weren’t particularly aligned. But given that she was writing at a time when female sexuality was just starting to become unstuck from some of the moral bindings that had constricted it, it feels important that she’s writing about these things without judgement – since judgement was pretty much all women had had around sex for a long time.
The writing is really strong and vivid, although you can tell that erotica is still in development as a genre. I’m not sure many people would include the description moaning like a pigeon in modern-day erotica. But she is able to develop characters in depth in a very short amount of time, which is impressive. There's also some genuinely beautiful writing in there.
Overall: a really interesting piece of writing from its time, that in many ways still stands up today. And if you saw me reading it on the train, it was for research, honest.
January 14, 2024
After reading many of the low reviews for this collection I think several of these commentators should have more sex and read less
November 27, 2022
Anaïs Nin is most definitely sitting comfortably in my favourite authors list. After reading Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932 a few months back, I was unashamedly smitten, and this little beauty of a book was no exception. This may only consist of 56 pages, but these were 56 pages of pure wonder and beauty, and that quietly explosive writing style that captivates my heart.
Female sexuality and desire is the theme throughout, and we experience closehand everything from the female perspective, which I really love. Sexual desire is the driving force of the four chapters and women we meet here. Nin describes these women so vividly, with such a unique style, that we cannot help but feel their inner most thoughts with an incredible transparency.
The way in which Nin speaks of each female is beautiful. They are all described in intricate detail, taking care not to miss a single aspect of that person. These women are discovering their sexual desires in different ways and forms, and the way in which they do this is really rather exquisite, and why is that, you ask?
Well, that is simple. It is because they are free to do so.
This is an intensely erotic read, full of encounters in the dark, in the back of a car, and even in front of an easel, but it is never a quick fumble with Nin. These are beautiful, sensual and sometimes ferocious intimacies that the reader is not meant to forget.
Female sexuality and desire is the theme throughout, and we experience closehand everything from the female perspective, which I really love. Sexual desire is the driving force of the four chapters and women we meet here. Nin describes these women so vividly, with such a unique style, that we cannot help but feel their inner most thoughts with an incredible transparency.
The way in which Nin speaks of each female is beautiful. They are all described in intricate detail, taking care not to miss a single aspect of that person. These women are discovering their sexual desires in different ways and forms, and the way in which they do this is really rather exquisite, and why is that, you ask?
Well, that is simple. It is because they are free to do so.
This is an intensely erotic read, full of encounters in the dark, in the back of a car, and even in front of an easel, but it is never a quick fumble with Nin. These are beautiful, sensual and sometimes ferocious intimacies that the reader is not meant to forget.
February 2, 2022
[2.5] Erotica about men and women searching, mostly fruitlessly, for satisfaction. Apparently Nin wrote the stories for $1 a page for a collector. Heavy with sex, they are just quirky enough for me to keep reading - but left me cold. I remember reading Nin's diaries decades ago and was quite enthralled. So I wouldn't judge her by these...
Penguin Modern Classics
#1 - Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
#2 - Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
#3 - The Breakthrough by Daphne Du Maurier
#4 - The Custard Heart by Dorothy Parker
#5 - Three Japanese Short Stories (3 authors)
#6 - The Veiled Woman by Anais Nin
Penguin Modern Classics
#1 - Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
#2 - Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
#3 - The Breakthrough by Daphne Du Maurier
#4 - The Custard Heart by Dorothy Parker
#5 - Three Japanese Short Stories (3 authors)
#6 - The Veiled Woman by Anais Nin
July 2, 2024
Didn’t realise this was erotica when I picked it up. Starting to make my way through my penguin modern classics box set, I have been meaning to pick up books by Anais Nin so I thought this would be a good start! Was interesting, I can appreciate the writing and the fact that 3/4 stories are women’s perspective. Just wasn’t for me! I am looking forward to reading her fiction work
June 2, 2026
I own the Penguin Modern Classics BoxSet and so far I've been very lucky to find some treasures.
This isn't one of them 🤣
Absolutely not for me 🫠
This isn't one of them 🤣
Absolutely not for me 🫠
September 22, 2021
Video Review
Here's a further development of what I say in my video review, which I left out because it might be too real/awkward/controversial to say.
The reason why I think Anaïs Nin is underrated is because readers are actually embarrassed and dismayed by both the seductive and tragic power of her stories. I think Nin's stories are a caution against how weak we, men and women, are to the damages caused by casual sexual relations. If there is a theme to these stories, it is 'to have sex without love is overpowering and often damaging'. The use of her terminology of sex for genitals of either biological sex shows that each of us are susceptible to this, and that perhaps is a socially unpopular but mature and honest view. It is somehow cooler to pass on Anaïs Nin's 'obscenity' or 'weird terminology' than to admit that vulnerability is something that can happen in sex.
You could call Nin out for writing smut, but then every reader knows what they were getting into picking her books up. They just perhaps the stories might not be so sad. It also presupposes stories without these events are closer to reality, and that it is more moral to avoid sexually obscene topics, but I don't think either of those points are necessarily the case. I think if anything Nin's stories caution us about how fragile we are in sexual situations, and does so with an intensity and sincerity that people in denial would prefer to dismiss or ignore.
I just feel that in a time where we're trying so hard, perhaps too hard, to find distinct female novelists, it's a shame that the world turns a blind eye or a bad word to a writer who clearly tried something that is still to this day outrageous, unparalleled and frankly difficult to pull off (just about every bestselling author cannot write a realistic sex scene). I for one, think in the little she wrote, that she might have initiated an adult perspective we're still yet to see properly surface in literary fiction.
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Underrated. Might be the best Penguin Modern. Review coming soon.
"The general accusations passed against writers now is that they write about rot because they love it. Some do, and their works may betray them, but it is impossible not to believe that some write about rot because they see it and recognize it for what it is." — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery & Manners
Here's a further development of what I say in my video review, which I left out because it might be too real/awkward/controversial to say.
The reason why I think Anaïs Nin is underrated is because readers are actually embarrassed and dismayed by both the seductive and tragic power of her stories. I think Nin's stories are a caution against how weak we, men and women, are to the damages caused by casual sexual relations. If there is a theme to these stories, it is 'to have sex without love is overpowering and often damaging'. The use of her terminology of sex for genitals of either biological sex shows that each of us are susceptible to this, and that perhaps is a socially unpopular but mature and honest view. It is somehow cooler to pass on Anaïs Nin's 'obscenity' or 'weird terminology' than to admit that vulnerability is something that can happen in sex.
You could call Nin out for writing smut, but then every reader knows what they were getting into picking her books up. They just perhaps the stories might not be so sad. It also presupposes stories without these events are closer to reality, and that it is more moral to avoid sexually obscene topics, but I don't think either of those points are necessarily the case. I think if anything Nin's stories caution us about how fragile we are in sexual situations, and does so with an intensity and sincerity that people in denial would prefer to dismiss or ignore.
I just feel that in a time where we're trying so hard, perhaps too hard, to find distinct female novelists, it's a shame that the world turns a blind eye or a bad word to a writer who clearly tried something that is still to this day outrageous, unparalleled and frankly difficult to pull off (just about every bestselling author cannot write a realistic sex scene). I for one, think in the little she wrote, that she might have initiated an adult perspective we're still yet to see properly surface in literary fiction.
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Underrated. Might be the best Penguin Modern. Review coming soon.
March 12, 2026
PENGUIN MODERN BOX SET NO. 6
She was way more interesting than these luke-warm dollops of what’s called erotica. For instance – I’m stealing this part from my review of her biography - she had an original take on Freudian analysis. What she did was she had sex with her first two analysts then set up as an analyst herself without any credentials! You know, why not? It seems obvious in retrospect that that’s the way to go. (I believe this is now frowned on in the analysis business.) By the way, she told her BFF Henry Miller that he should do the same, and he did! Set up as an analyst, that is. And this total scam lasted a while – they got clients and everything.
Later some guys paid her to write sexy stories, as these three items here. But I think tastes in turnons have changed since the early 1940s.
And now their two mouths melted into each other, seeking the leaping tongues.
Kind of like finding a week old potato salad in the fridge. The Eat By date has gone, baby, gone.
She was way more interesting than these luke-warm dollops of what’s called erotica. For instance – I’m stealing this part from my review of her biography - she had an original take on Freudian analysis. What she did was she had sex with her first two analysts then set up as an analyst herself without any credentials! You know, why not? It seems obvious in retrospect that that’s the way to go. (I believe this is now frowned on in the analysis business.) By the way, she told her BFF Henry Miller that he should do the same, and he did! Set up as an analyst, that is. And this total scam lasted a while – they got clients and everything.
Later some guys paid her to write sexy stories, as these three items here. But I think tastes in turnons have changed since the early 1940s.
And now their two mouths melted into each other, seeking the leaping tongues.
Kind of like finding a week old potato salad in the fridge. The Eat By date has gone, baby, gone.
May 12, 2018
Why is Nin become so popular? What we have is a selection of writing for perverts. There is no content here that justifies publication.
Attrocious garbage.
Attrocious garbage.
March 18, 2026
This story explores how people often fall in love not with a real person, but with the mysterious image they create of them. In a sultry, dreamlike atmosphere with a noir feeling, Anaïs Nin suggests that love is often shaped by imagination and fantasy.
What I found most interesting is that each chapter shows a different version of the veiled woman. The veil allows her to embody many identities, showing how people project their own desires and meanings onto the same person. In that sense, the veiled woman is not just one individual—she represents many possible women and fantasies.
She becomes almost like a mirror of desire rather than a fixed character. Everyone sees a different version of her.
When the veil is finally lifted, it reveals many faces, suggesting that identity and desire are complex and constantly changing. Nin seems to be saying that human identity can never be fully understood—we all contain many different versions of ourselves that are impossible to fully define
3.5 stars
What I found most interesting is that each chapter shows a different version of the veiled woman. The veil allows her to embody many identities, showing how people project their own desires and meanings onto the same person. In that sense, the veiled woman is not just one individual—she represents many possible women and fantasies.
She becomes almost like a mirror of desire rather than a fixed character. Everyone sees a different version of her.
When the veil is finally lifted, it reveals many faces, suggesting that identity and desire are complex and constantly changing. Nin seems to be saying that human identity can never be fully understood—we all contain many different versions of ourselves that are impossible to fully define
3.5 stars
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December 30, 2022yeah i did not do any research before reading this book
February 21, 2022
So hot, don't read this at the office.
June 14, 2025
The Veiled Woman by Anais Nin – this is a short erotic story, which is also part of The Delta of Venus, just like The Model, my note on this is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
8 out of 10
Although the title of the tale is The Veiled Woman, we could argue that George is the main character, or settle for saying they both play a large part in this arousing, incredibly erotic story – I still cannot get over how explicit this is, not just penises, vulvas and the whole set of sexual organs, but variations, preferences…
Sexual acts set not just in public, but in a theater like in the chapter about the Brazilian dancer Anita – ‘She was rouging her sex! For admirers who were not allowed to make a gesture. Her sex was like a giant hothouse flower, larger than any the Baron had ever seen, with abundant, curly hair. She made her round of the boxes and…
Sucked men's penises. There were no women allowed’…The Hungarian Adventurer, who fell in love with Anita, is not just what his nickname says, a lover with insatiable appetite, but he was also a pervert, who played with two girls, ten and twelve, daughters of the Ambassador in Rome, he had orgasms with them, what about that?
To summarize, this is an explosive, eye popping collection, we are told in the introduction that there was a collector, he ordered those erotic tales, and he was not interested in descriptions of skin, setting, he wanted all that cut, to have only the ‘essence’, what he was interested in, which was just coitus, sexual games
Or take The Cuban, Antonio, from Artists and Models https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... who had intercourse with this woman, who was wearing a chastity belt –‘He said keep belt and tearing dress around.
‘She was Trembling at strength 💪 of his hands, with Sexual Hunger rising, blinding her, his Hands pressed 🙌 leaving marks and pain everywhere…She was moist and Trembling, opening her legs, she tried opening his pants, he had this big penis and she Took into her mouth…His fingers were everywhere at her anus, sex…
He bit her nipples…Took her ass to his mouth bit and kissed 💋 her…Her hunger was like raging 😤 fire 🔥 she was slave of the enormous man who demanded submission 😑 she became as soft as cotton…
The Veiled Woman takes a similar path, George meets this couple at a Swedish bar, they are wealthy and she is an ‘absolutely beautiful woman’ and just as our man is fantasizing, her companion approaches him, with an interesting, if bizarre proposition, explained with ‘she is flawless, stunning, but she only likes…the unknown
I must confess, perhaps it has to be with humility, mea culpa, that this made me think of those ‘glory holes’ from pornographic movies, which I could not understand, I mean, why would they want to do that, what if there are disgusting fellows on the other side of the wall, but then this is just the point, and the explanation is…
In the Veiled Woman, well sort of, I still do not dig, but how can one do that is a question of taste, inclination, somebody different from me has no way of seeing what drives me to, say talk to this person at the gym, who does not really respond, does not see how glorious, smart I am, so there must be something wrong there
Earlier today, I have even showed her my ‘credentials’, piece of the resume, maybe she will have me as her swimming instructor (for free, evidently) and there is the picture of me, and the top spot I have on Goodreads, for my realm, where I am the ‘top number one reviewer’, which means I try hard enough, write a lot
Writing is a sort of therapy, like now, I share with strangers my concerns and dreams of romantic fulfillment, but it does not mean I have the best reviews, far from that, it works on the rules from Influence https://realini.blogspot.com/2016/05/... by Robert Cialdini, a classic
In particular, the one about Reciprocity, so they give you likes, you give them in return, but the strategy had me showing how ‘good I am’, reading and writing so much (not competitively, nobody reads these lines actually) and presumably there must have been something on swimming in there, so please let me teach you to swim
So, I am criticizing, to some extent, what the Veiled Woman does, but I am taken down to the floor, KO in boxing, for my own outrageous shenanigans – this lawyer, Calin I think, was laughing at how I am enraptured, at my age, and when I have nothing in my favor, not even a good set of assets, so that I can say
Here are some Gucci, Praga bags, and then go and get wild with this
The Veiled Woman has this ‘ body which is perfectly 🥰 balanced…George has his Mouth on her shoulders, she has this marvelous odor…Under the dress 👗 she is naked…Her sex is soft but without vibrations 📳 when his eyes are on her sex, she quivered saying take your clothes off, she kissed and fondled his sex…His mouth was like a sex organ, the tongue able to reach some unknown pleasure… there is Intense love making, but she did not ask his name, or to return…Then a friend described this voyeur experience and George is obsessed with the idea 💡 that women are hiding spectators, behind the curtains…
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
8 out of 10
Although the title of the tale is The Veiled Woman, we could argue that George is the main character, or settle for saying they both play a large part in this arousing, incredibly erotic story – I still cannot get over how explicit this is, not just penises, vulvas and the whole set of sexual organs, but variations, preferences…
Sexual acts set not just in public, but in a theater like in the chapter about the Brazilian dancer Anita – ‘She was rouging her sex! For admirers who were not allowed to make a gesture. Her sex was like a giant hothouse flower, larger than any the Baron had ever seen, with abundant, curly hair. She made her round of the boxes and…
Sucked men's penises. There were no women allowed’…The Hungarian Adventurer, who fell in love with Anita, is not just what his nickname says, a lover with insatiable appetite, but he was also a pervert, who played with two girls, ten and twelve, daughters of the Ambassador in Rome, he had orgasms with them, what about that?
To summarize, this is an explosive, eye popping collection, we are told in the introduction that there was a collector, he ordered those erotic tales, and he was not interested in descriptions of skin, setting, he wanted all that cut, to have only the ‘essence’, what he was interested in, which was just coitus, sexual games
Or take The Cuban, Antonio, from Artists and Models https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... who had intercourse with this woman, who was wearing a chastity belt –‘He said keep belt and tearing dress around.
‘She was Trembling at strength 💪 of his hands, with Sexual Hunger rising, blinding her, his Hands pressed 🙌 leaving marks and pain everywhere…She was moist and Trembling, opening her legs, she tried opening his pants, he had this big penis and she Took into her mouth…His fingers were everywhere at her anus, sex…
He bit her nipples…Took her ass to his mouth bit and kissed 💋 her…Her hunger was like raging 😤 fire 🔥 she was slave of the enormous man who demanded submission 😑 she became as soft as cotton…
The Veiled Woman takes a similar path, George meets this couple at a Swedish bar, they are wealthy and she is an ‘absolutely beautiful woman’ and just as our man is fantasizing, her companion approaches him, with an interesting, if bizarre proposition, explained with ‘she is flawless, stunning, but she only likes…the unknown
I must confess, perhaps it has to be with humility, mea culpa, that this made me think of those ‘glory holes’ from pornographic movies, which I could not understand, I mean, why would they want to do that, what if there are disgusting fellows on the other side of the wall, but then this is just the point, and the explanation is…
In the Veiled Woman, well sort of, I still do not dig, but how can one do that is a question of taste, inclination, somebody different from me has no way of seeing what drives me to, say talk to this person at the gym, who does not really respond, does not see how glorious, smart I am, so there must be something wrong there
Earlier today, I have even showed her my ‘credentials’, piece of the resume, maybe she will have me as her swimming instructor (for free, evidently) and there is the picture of me, and the top spot I have on Goodreads, for my realm, where I am the ‘top number one reviewer’, which means I try hard enough, write a lot
Writing is a sort of therapy, like now, I share with strangers my concerns and dreams of romantic fulfillment, but it does not mean I have the best reviews, far from that, it works on the rules from Influence https://realini.blogspot.com/2016/05/... by Robert Cialdini, a classic
In particular, the one about Reciprocity, so they give you likes, you give them in return, but the strategy had me showing how ‘good I am’, reading and writing so much (not competitively, nobody reads these lines actually) and presumably there must have been something on swimming in there, so please let me teach you to swim
So, I am criticizing, to some extent, what the Veiled Woman does, but I am taken down to the floor, KO in boxing, for my own outrageous shenanigans – this lawyer, Calin I think, was laughing at how I am enraptured, at my age, and when I have nothing in my favor, not even a good set of assets, so that I can say
Here are some Gucci, Praga bags, and then go and get wild with this
The Veiled Woman has this ‘ body which is perfectly 🥰 balanced…George has his Mouth on her shoulders, she has this marvelous odor…Under the dress 👗 she is naked…Her sex is soft but without vibrations 📳 when his eyes are on her sex, she quivered saying take your clothes off, she kissed and fondled his sex…His mouth was like a sex organ, the tongue able to reach some unknown pleasure… there is Intense love making, but she did not ask his name, or to return…Then a friend described this voyeur experience and George is obsessed with the idea 💡 that women are hiding spectators, behind the curtains…
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Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
November 3, 2021
Erotica isn't a genre I am used to reading, but I loved these short stories. Nin has a talent for establishing interesting characters extremely quickly, and each of the stories were distinctly unique. As for the sex, it was entertaining and also genuinely well written. The prose was great with vivid descriptions of not just what was happening, but also with who and where. So glad I gave this a chance, it was really fun.
October 15, 2025
3.5⭐️
These stories had a very noir, sultry feel to them…Of course they’re erotica but without the actual scenes taken into account, everything described did have a very moulin rouge, burlesque essence to it. It was something I quite haven’t felt/read in a book yet and it took me (pleasantly) by surprise. Will definitely be reading more of Anaïs in the future!
These stories had a very noir, sultry feel to them…Of course they’re erotica but without the actual scenes taken into account, everything described did have a very moulin rouge, burlesque essence to it. It was something I quite haven’t felt/read in a book yet and it took me (pleasantly) by surprise. Will definitely be reading more of Anaïs in the future!
July 19, 2026
going into books blind has failed me just this once
March 10, 2024
'Her body emerged like that of Venus coming out of the sea'
1970's smut written for the female gaze. incredible.
hot
so hot
i want more
1970's smut written for the female gaze. incredible.
hot
so hot
i want more
August 28, 2026
Again, this is something odd that I found in the Penguin Modern collection. I mean, how on earth did I end up reading erotic fiction?
However, I think the way she wrote the narrative was more like a psychological journey into desire, particularly exploring female desire and the way women experience and perceive their own bodies and sexuality.
The themes explored here, such as adultery, lesbian desire, and transgressive pleasure, became the main course. After reading this, I think Nin can be considered an important figure in the literary history of modern erotic fiction.
Overall, I think it was an enjoyable reading experience.
However, I think the way she wrote the narrative was more like a psychological journey into desire, particularly exploring female desire and the way women experience and perceive their own bodies and sexuality.
The themes explored here, such as adultery, lesbian desire, and transgressive pleasure, became the main course. After reading this, I think Nin can be considered an important figure in the literary history of modern erotic fiction.
Overall, I think it was an enjoyable reading experience.
April 23, 2025
Objectief hoort dit een hogere rating te hebben en goed van dit boek dat het zo vooruitstrevend was voor z’n tijd maar voor mij was het gewoon echt te sexy sorry
August 29, 2020
“I shall call myself the madam of a house of literary prostitution, the madam for a group of hungry writers who were turning out erotica for sale to a “collector”. “
Ēdu godži ogas pa vienai vien, lai mazinātu satraukumu un kaismi lasot Anaisu Ninu. Viņas seksuālās iekāres, baudas virsotnes atklāšanas, nebeidzamie eksperimenti, iekāre gan pret vīriešiem, gan sievietēm, ir nebeidzami.
Viņas darbus nevar lasīt kā vienkāršu romānu-Anaisas meistarīgi uzrakstītie erotiskie īsstāsti ievelk seksualitātes pasaulē, kur aizspriedumiem nav vietas, kur var notikt vispārdrošākās fantāzijas un pilnīga sevis iepazīšana.
Ja tev Anaisas Ninas vārds ir svešs, sameklē vienīgo latviski izdoto darbu “Henrijs un Džūna”, kas ir mazs fragments no autores dienassgrāmatām, ko viņa rakstīja visas dzīves laikā- savus seksuālos piedzīvojumus un eksperimentus uzliekot uz papīra.
Savus īsos stāstus Anaisa pārdeva privātam kolekcionāram. Daļa no tiem ir apkopoti vairākās grāmatās. Šī, manis aprakstītā “The veiled woman” grāmatā ir 4 īsstāsti. Tas, ka visi pārdotie stāsti nav apzināti, pierādījās, kad 2016 gadā izdeva jaunu stāstu krājumu “Aulertis”, ko atklāja, kad tas tika izlikts izsolē no kāda kolekcionāra. Amazone šos stāstus pat bloķēja parastā meklēšanas kārtībā, jo tajos esot bijuši pārāk tabu tēmas un likuma pārkāpjoši. Savukārt daudzas no dienasgrāmatām tiek pārizdotas oriģinālā apjomā, jo seksualitātes un grafiskuma dēļ tās agrāk tikušas cenzētas-izņemot daļas laukā.
“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt between the legs. That is how I want to fall in love, so hard that the mere thought of him will bring on an orgasm. “
Ak, Anaisa Nina, tu esi literārās seksualitātes dieviete!
Ēdu godži ogas pa vienai vien, lai mazinātu satraukumu un kaismi lasot Anaisu Ninu. Viņas seksuālās iekāres, baudas virsotnes atklāšanas, nebeidzamie eksperimenti, iekāre gan pret vīriešiem, gan sievietēm, ir nebeidzami.
Viņas darbus nevar lasīt kā vienkāršu romānu-Anaisas meistarīgi uzrakstītie erotiskie īsstāsti ievelk seksualitātes pasaulē, kur aizspriedumiem nav vietas, kur var notikt vispārdrošākās fantāzijas un pilnīga sevis iepazīšana.
Ja tev Anaisas Ninas vārds ir svešs, sameklē vienīgo latviski izdoto darbu “Henrijs un Džūna”, kas ir mazs fragments no autores dienassgrāmatām, ko viņa rakstīja visas dzīves laikā- savus seksuālos piedzīvojumus un eksperimentus uzliekot uz papīra.
Savus īsos stāstus Anaisa pārdeva privātam kolekcionāram. Daļa no tiem ir apkopoti vairākās grāmatās. Šī, manis aprakstītā “The veiled woman” grāmatā ir 4 īsstāsti. Tas, ka visi pārdotie stāsti nav apzināti, pierādījās, kad 2016 gadā izdeva jaunu stāstu krājumu “Aulertis”, ko atklāja, kad tas tika izlikts izsolē no kāda kolekcionāra. Amazone šos stāstus pat bloķēja parastā meklēšanas kārtībā, jo tajos esot bijuši pārāk tabu tēmas un likuma pārkāpjoši. Savukārt daudzas no dienasgrāmatām tiek pārizdotas oriģinālā apjomā, jo seksualitātes un grafiskuma dēļ tās agrāk tikušas cenzētas-izņemot daļas laukā.
“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt between the legs. That is how I want to fall in love, so hard that the mere thought of him will bring on an orgasm. “
Ak, Anaisa Nina, tu esi literārās seksualitātes dieviete!
April 19, 2018
Saucy but I’ve read saucier. Weird and dreamlike, reminiscent of Kafka and Murakami in that things just kind of...happen, but also not long enough to deliver any satisfying resolutions (ironically).
I purchased this on a trip to London and Fez without knowing that Fez is featured prominently in one of the stories (another book about Fez that I read during the trip even made direct reference to Anaïs Nin) so that was a nice personal tie-in, gross orientalism notwithstanding.
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I purchased this on a trip to London and Fez without knowing that Fez is featured prominently in one of the stories (another book about Fez that I read during the trip even made direct reference to Anaïs Nin) so that was a nice personal tie-in, gross orientalism notwithstanding.
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September 21, 2025
just say penis and vagina
August 11, 2025
I suppose we have to read these through the lens of the time they were written, and that they are non-judgemental about women. But they were a bit meh, all about the sensuous descriptions and no real plot - I enjoyed her diaries far more!
October 25, 2024
When I picked up The Veiled Woman by Anaïs Nin, I wasn't aware that it was an erotic collection. The book contains four short stories, each exploring themes of intimacy and desire from a woman's perspective. Stepping outside my usual reading choices, I found myself genuinely captivated by the narratives, especially Linda's story, which stood out to me.
What impressed me most was Nin's ability to create a strong connection to her characters within such a short space (10-15 pages). It speaks to her skill in delivering meaningful characters ( I dont want to say well-developed characters), which is rare in short stories. I find it challenging for many writers to achieve this, especially in the short stories genre, where it's easy to lose readers' emotional engagement.
Reading this has definitely made me curious about Nin’s other works.
One quote that I liked:
"The masks gave people a liberty that turned the most refined ones into hungry animals."
What impressed me most was Nin's ability to create a strong connection to her characters within such a short space (10-15 pages). It speaks to her skill in delivering meaningful characters ( I dont want to say well-developed characters), which is rare in short stories. I find it challenging for many writers to achieve this, especially in the short stories genre, where it's easy to lose readers' emotional engagement.
Reading this has definitely made me curious about Nin’s other works.
One quote that I liked:
"The masks gave people a liberty that turned the most refined ones into hungry animals."
June 3, 2025
"The masks gave people a liberty that turned the most refined ones into hungry animals."
Anaïs Nin's prose is, as always, something to die for. I find the way she writes erotica to come across as more clinical than "sexy," though that's just her thing. I'm not here to intellectualize what is at the end of the day, erotica, but she does have a way with words, even in the worst contexts.
She has an easy way of weaving men's misogyny or women's hardships into her writing, that she doesn't spoon feed you. She puts you into the shoes of the women, even though it's from the men's perspective. You get to see their perversion, misogyny, and view of women as less than.
Anaïs Nin's prose is, as always, something to die for. I find the way she writes erotica to come across as more clinical than "sexy," though that's just her thing. I'm not here to intellectualize what is at the end of the day, erotica, but she does have a way with words, even in the worst contexts.
She has an easy way of weaving men's misogyny or women's hardships into her writing, that she doesn't spoon feed you. She puts you into the shoes of the women, even though it's from the men's perspective. You get to see their perversion, misogyny, and view of women as less than.
March 14, 2022
The Parisian hairdresser plays a vital role in the life of a Frenchwoman. He not only dresses her hair, about which she is particularly fastidious, but he is an arbiter of fashion. He is her best critic and confessor in matters of love. The two hours that it takes to get one's hair washed, curled and dried is ample time for confidences.
July 31, 2023
these short stories about female pleasure, the female gaze, and sexual agency were definitely ahead of their time. however, in a contemporary context there are a numerous problematic parts that i simply cannot ignore.
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