Winter of Artifice

"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.

Most copies of this edition were lost at the time of the death of its publisher and the beginning of World War II.

Stella's exterior resembles the description of Anaïs's friend Luise Rainer in the Published Diaries.

The third section, “The Voice”, is written in the form of a Surrealistic caricature of a Psychoanalytic practice in New York City.

[2] The cover drawings and illustrations are engravings by Ian Hugo, the artist name of Anaïs's (first) husband Hugh Parker Guiler.