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''Little Birds'' is Anaïs Nin's second published work of erotica, which appeared in 1979 two years after her death,〔London: W. H. Allen, 1979 ISBN 0491022182--London: Penguin, 1990 ISBN 0-14-014663-6 (also in Twentieth Century Classics, 1991)〕 but was apparently written in the early 1940s when she was part of a group "writing pornography for a dollar a day." The book is a collection of thirteen short stories. The sexual topics covered are quite varied, ranging from pedophilia to lesbianism, but linked by an interest in female subjectivity〔A. T. Salvatore ed., ''Anaïs Nin's Narratives'' (2004) p. 27〕 and in the dialectic of discourse and intercourse.〔P. Jason, ''The Critical Response to Anaïs Nin'' (1996) p. 102〕 Many of the same characters that appear in ''Delta of Venus'', her first published book of erotica, re-occur here. ==Title and themes== The 'little birds' of the title story refer both to the actual birds used by its exhibitionist protagonist to attract young schoolgirls to his attic, and (metaphorically) to the girls' flight when he finally exposes himself.〔Anaïs Nin, ''Delta of Venus & Little Birds'' (1996) p. 294-7〕 In other stories, Nin calls into question the objectifying tendencies of the male gaze; both male and female complicity in masochism; and the pornographic genre itself through her subtle subversion.〔A. T. Salvatore ed., ''Anaïs Nin's Narratives'' (2004) p. x, p. 18 and p. 33〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Little Birds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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