Collages [Paperback]

Anais Nin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Quartet Books (1980)
• ASIN: B0018OBPLU
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she wrote primarily fiction until 1964, when her last novel, Collages, was published. She wrote The House of Incest, a prose-poem (1936), three novellas collected in The Winter of Artifice (1939), short stories collected in Under a Glass Bell (1944), and a five-volume continuous novel consisting of Ladders to Fire (1946), Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), and Seduction of the Minotaur (1961). These novels were collected as Cities of the Interior (1974). She gained commercial and critical success with the publication of the first volume of her diary (1966); to date, fifteen diary volumes have been published. Her most commercially successful books were her erotica published as Delta of Venus (1977) and Little Birds (1979). Today, her books are appearing digitally.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Her best fiction, August 7, 2002

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"ivy113" (Philadelphia, Pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collages (Paperback)

I can't reasonably express how beautiful this book is. It was my first Nin reading and remains my favorite among her fiction. In my opinion, her prose and story in Collages is at its strongest and most moving. This work shows the heart of a poet.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read..., February 23, 2005

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Savannah Skye (New York City, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collages (Paperback)

For me this book read like a collage of images strung together seamlessly by a multitude of characters in differing places... Places that Renate traveled to, lived in, loved in and much more... Once again, with Anais' mellifluous word usage, I felt like I was right there traveling with her - Savannah Skye...

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not very impressive, November 26, 2007

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M. S. Owyang (Fremont, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collages (Paperback)

Boring and poorly written. The reason I bought this one because I have been miled by reading the othere's reviews. It may be a good book for others but certainly not for me.