Winter of Artifice

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Winter of Artifice, published in 1939, is Anaïs Nin's second published book, containing subsequently alternating novelettes.

The original edition was published in Paris and identified as The Winter of Artifice, though originally titled "Alraune" in her manuscripts. She wrote this novel simultaneously as the book depicting her incestuous relationship with her father, called at the time "The Double". This Paris version contained three novellettes: "Djuna," a story that was never again reprinted; "Lilith," whose title was changed to "Winter of Artifice" in future editions; and "The Voice," whose title remained the same but whose content was heavily revised over future editions.

"Djuna" is said to be a fictionalized version (what she referred to as 'caricatured') of the story eventually told in the portion of Nin's diary later published as Henry and June.