Anais Nin's long lost collection of erotica is finally published after it was originally collected more than 70 years ago. Containing two major sections, "Life in Provincetown" and "Marcel," Auletris is the only Nin erotica published exactly as she wrote it for a private collector in the early 1940s. "Life in Provincetown," a series of intertwined stories, has never been available to the public until now, and "Marcel" is the original, uncut, uncensored version of the story that appears in Nin's Delta of Venus.

About the Author

Partly of Spanish origin, Anais Nin was also of Cuban, French and Danish descent. She was born in Paris and spent her childhood in various parts of Europe. Her father left the family for another woman, which shocked Anais profoundly and was the reason for her mother to take her and her two brothers to live in the United States. Later Anais Nin moved to Paris with her husband, and they lived in France from 1924 to 1939, when Americans left on account of the war. She was analysed in the 1930s by Rene Allendy and subsequently by Otto Rank, with whom she also studied briefly in the summer of 1934. She became acquainted with many well-known writers and artists, and wrote a series of novels and stories.