Anais Nin is a pervert, and so is everyone else. In selecting ‘The Woman on the Dunes’ for this series Leone Ross commented she respected Nin “for her insistence on including the erotic in all things”, but I think Nin really recognised the erotic in all things.
I like this story because it diverts in the final third into another story, spoken by one of the characters. It is overwhelming and mildly evil, much like sex itself.
First published in Little Birds, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979
A Personal Anthology 