Drawn from her original, uncensored journals, this is an intimate account of Anais Nin's sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year--from 1931 to the end of 1932.
This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.
Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy, and a host of others who yearn for and dive ...
The author's experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establishment, and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. "[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of this century" (New York Times Book Review). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index ...
A unique, moving story of a modern woman's journey into the depths of love and self-discovery, told in exquisitely erotic language and images of startling emotional truth, penned by "one of contemporary literature's most important writers" (Newsweek) and newly repackaged.
Originally published in 1936, House of Incest is Anais Nin's first work of fiction. The novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator's subconscious mind as she attempts to escape from a dream in which she is trapped, or in Nin's words, as she attempts to escape from "the woman's season in hell." In the documentary Anais Observed, Nin says ...
In this book Anais Nin speaks with warmth and urgency on those themes which have always been closest to her: relationship, creativity, the struggle for wholeness, the unveiling of a woman, the artist as magician, women reconstructing the world, moving from the dream outward, and experiencing our lives to the fullest possible extent.
Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist in the modern world. "Sensitive and frank...[Nin's] diary is a dialogue between flesh and spirit" (Newsweek). Edited and with a Preface by ...
Ladders to Fire explores the erotic attachments of four young women. Nin described it as a "woman's struggle to understand her own nature." It began a five-volume "continuous novel," Cities of the Interior, which includes Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), and Solar Barque (1959). ...
This volume contains diary entries from the years from 1931 and 1932 that were withheld from the seven volumes that were published during Nin's lifetime.
A charming and amusing view of Nin's early life, from age eleven to seventeen; the self-portrait of an innocent girl who is transformed, through her own insights, into an enlightened young woman. "An enchanting portrait of a girl's constant search for herself" (Library Journal). Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell; Index; photographs and drawings. ...
This volume covers the years when Nin's earlier diaries were first published. With the publication of the older diaries, Nin's reputation went from that of an underground literary figure to that of an international (albeit unintended) representative of both the women's movement and the sexual revolution. By 1974, the final year recorded in this ...
Anais Nin is known for her erotic writings collected in Delta of Venus and Little Birds and her extensive diaries. When her diary for 1932 to 1934 was first published in 1966, explicit portions were deleted. Here now is that missing portion detailing Nin's relationship with her father and with writer Henry Miller and his wife June, first explored ...
Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin met in Paris in the '30s, and were lovers and friends for over 20 years, during which they meticulously documented their feeling for each other in this series of illuminating letters.
"My original concept was Roman Fleuve, a series of novels on various aspects of relationships, portraying four women in a continuous symphony of experience". -- Anais Nin, from the introduction to the British edition of Ladders to Fire
Nin continues her debate on the use of drugs versus the artist's imagination, portrays many famous people in the arts, and recounts her visits to Sweden, the Brussels World's Fair, Paris, and Venice. "[Nin] looks at life, love, and art with a blend of gentility and acuity that is rare in contemporary writing" (John Barkham Reviews). Edited and ...
The fourth volume of "A Journal of Love," covers the years 1937 through 1939 and continues the story begun in "Fire" of Nin's "dismemberment by love." She remains torn between three men: Henry Miller, whose detached self-immersion and artistic "impersonality" both attract and repel her; Gonzalo Moré, a sensitive and attentive but jealous lover who ...
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Fire: From ""A Journal of Love"" the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1937
