About this title: 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.
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"very beautiful dreamy descriptions of a woman with multiple lovers in a sort of surreal tale that oscillates between descriptions of her multiple lovers and the intricacies of the details she shares with them andit the paranoia she experiences as she tries to avoid getting caught by her other lovers. The ending is a little strange and I had a hard time following the book through all the flowery language at times"
"I have to confess I found Sabina rather tedious. She is married to dependable but unexciting Alan, he adores her, she still loves him but it is not enough so she has a string of affairs. Each relationship is described with lots of breathy metaphor but no sense of time, so it's not entirely clear if these are sequential or concurrent. While each answers a different need in Sabina, none is enough on its own - but then she never gives herself the chance to relax into any of them, never gives as much as she takes from any of her lovers. This is explained by her perpetual fear of being found out, and that part of her existence - the lies, the switching between personalities, the not being quite sure where the real she was in the midst of all of these personae - was very well described. Unfortunately, neither she nor we knew where the real Sabina was either and that made it difficult to care for her. It may have been designed to make one feel sorry for her I know, but there was not enough to like about her for me to develop any real sympathy.
This is the first book of Nin's I have read and I was looking forward to seeing what people meant about her writing. While I found quite a few lovely phrases, they were often in overdone sentences that were so thick with images that they got in the way of the picture. Maybe were I to read it more slowly I would appreciate it more.
The best bit of this book was the music; pieces playing or used to reflect the mood were by far the most meaningful comparisons to me: Sabina as The Firebird, L'Ile Joyeuse for a calm moment and particularly the growing madness of La Valse reflecting her progression through an affair, or maybe several. Had Nin but followed the arc of this particular poeme of Ravel's I think I would have found the book more comprehensible and satisfying.
Nonetheless enough there to make me think I would re-read were it to fall into my hands again."
""'You can't sleep you know, until you find something to be grateful for, you can never sleep when you're angry.'"
"She ended by choosing a dress with a hole in its sleeve. The last time she has worn it, she had stood before a restaurant which was too luxurious, too ostentatious which she was frightened to enter, but instead of saying: "I am afraid to enter here," she had been able to say: "I can't enter here with a hole in my sleeve."
"Her dress was becalmed. It was as if she were nothing that the wind could catch, swell, and propel. To Sabina, to be becalmed meant to die.""
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