Nira/Sussa
Nira/Sussa: 12th Anniversary Edition
written by
Julian Darius
cover by
Doug Smock
forthcoming
Watchmen : superhero comics :: Nira/Sussa : pornographic novels. If the Marquis de Sade wrote with the literary panache of Vladimir Nabokov, you might get Nira/Sussa, the acclaimed erotic and violent novel that doubled as the author’s doctoral dissertation. Recognized by Kirkus Reviews as exploring “the limits of sexual appetite and its ties to wealth and power,” this strange, postmodern love story demands much of its readers -- not least that we be honest about our desires. It asks us how far we’d really go, if given the opportunity. Reading Nira/Sussa hurts in the way only great therapy can.
This 12th anniversary edition also includes Stories for Your Therapist, a book-length collection of twelve short stories set in the same universe and greatly expanding on its characters -- along with non-fiction that reveals the full, tumultuous story of the dissertation process for the first time.
$6.99
Collected Material
Nira/Sussa
written by
Julian Darius
cover by
Doug Smock
336 pages (in print edition)
June 2012
He’s a tenured creative writing professor. A well-respected novelist. And a recovering sadistic pervert with a penchant for young girls. His name is Julian Darius, which by great coincidence just happens to be the name of this novel’s author.
She’s a teenage groupie who insists he buy her a collar before they have sex. She seems to know his desires better than he does. And she wants to fulfill them — even ones he claims not to have.
The result is a strange love story that explores how far we’d really go, given the opportunity… and whether men and women could truly live together, if they were completely honest about their desires.
This erotic and violent novel, criticized as pornographic, is nonetheless supremely literary and won its author a Ph.D. in English.
$14.99 in print on Amazon
$3.99 on Kindle
Stories for Your Therapist
written by
Julian Darius
forthcoming
This new collection from Julian Darius features a dozen short stories, set in the same universe as his acclaimed novel Nira/Sussa -- including a story that reveals what happened after the novel. The book also includes related non-fiction, which reveals the full, tumultuous story of how Darius used the difficult, pornographic novel as his doctoral dissertation.
$4.99
"As much a love story as a brutal tale of BDSM, [Nira/Sussa] explores the limits of sexual appetite and its ties to wealth and power. [An] artistic... questioning [of] the ever-present power dynamics in life and love."
-- Kirkus Reviews
Here’s what Amazon reviewers are saying:
[An] important literary masterpiece… Brilliantly written… you will feel many different emotions and have all kinds of thoughts as you read, but this is the beautiful, almost forgotten gift of great literature. Many people are referring to this as the smart person’s Fifty Shades of Grey. But Fifty Shades of Grey is just not in the same realm.
The most disturbing book I have ever read… I could not put the book down… Expect to be shocked and sickened. I am still reeling… and it has been several days.
One of the most intense books I’ve ever read.
Stark, honest, and destructive… [but] eloquent and elegant.
Beautifully written and surprisingly funny.
