I am afraid the effect Nin might have been aiming for did not reach me at all. And whilst this book is disturbing it disturbs me more that I have fallen asleep reading it. However creative and provoking this is, unfortunately, it can get repetitive and not enough to keep me from falling asleep twice or thrice. From pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, incest, ménage à trois to somnophilia (you name it this have it like a porn site menu in written form), these do not suffice to form any literary appreciation in my mind that tries to separate itself from my own personal moral code. Interspersed with interesting bouts of obsession, violence, perversity, and the offensive in a series of short stories where some are linked, the capability of humans to act on their animalistic needs resulting in filthy and horrendous sexual behaviours and relations are as disgusting as one can imagine. Disturbing rather than arousing, the hailed classic erotica Delta of Venus reads like a very long foreplay without reaching any climax.
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