Anais Nin's first book, published in 1932 by Edward Titus in Paris, was a critical examination of the work of controversial British Author D. H. Lawrence. Of all the books written about Lawrence, his widow Frieda said this one "was the best." Nin was inspired to do the book after Lawrence had been villified by puritanical critics, but only had a pile of notes when she mentioned it to Titus. Titus asked to see something quickly, and in 13 days, Nin turned her notes into a cohesive and insightful study. In it, she declared: "Reading Lawrence should be a pursuit of his intuitions to the limit of their possibilities, a penetration of his world through which we are to make a prodigious voyage. It is going to be a prodigious voyage because he surrenders fully to experience, lets it flow through him, and because he had that quality of genius which sucks out of ordinary experience essences strange or unknown to men." Nin's study remains the most informative and deepest guide to Lawrence today.
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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.
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elegy to a young womans hero,
This review is from: D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study (Paperback)
D.H. Lawrence was obviously an enormous influence on Nin. One can almost visualize the young Nin being titilated by Women in Love or Lady Chatterlys Lover. Lawrence, no doubt, inspired Ms Nin to take up the pen in the first place. This unprofessional study is her tribute to this great writer. It is highly subjective (as is most criticism written by writers on other writers.) Nin touches on all aspects of Lawrence writing. She also lends a much needed feminine voice to the analysis of Lawrence. She seems to intuitively respond to the characters of Lawrence. This study really hits the spot. It is essential reading for any student of Lawrence. It also lends great insight into the artistic development of Anais Nin herself. (In some ways this book is as much about Nin as it is about Lawrence.) This study contains some outstanding writing from an author often undeservedly overshadowed by Henry Miller. This book should help to cement her own literary rank as a top notch writer.
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