Auletris: Erotica - Anais Nin

Anais Nin, Anas Nin, Paul Herron

Category: Literature

Tags: Literature, Romance

Auletris is a recently discovered, previously lost collection of erotica by Anais Nin, consisting of two major sections: Life in Provincetown and Marcel. A drastically cut version of Marcel appears in Nins best-selling Delta of Venus, and Life in Provincetown has never been published until now., Written in the early 1940s for a collector at a dollar a page, the erotica was also given to agents to sell far and wide. Auletris was sold to Milton Lubovitsky in 1950; Lubovitsky typed up five copies and sold them under the imprint of Press of the Sunken Eye to private buyers under the table. One of these copies surfaced when it was being offered in an auction, and it was then discovered that this collection had been lost to the public for decades. Once the authorship was verified, it was readied for true publication., Life in Provincetown is a collection of interwoven stories set in one of Nins favorite haunts and is populated with bohemian characters who engage in taboo sexual behavior, all