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Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937 Hardcover – May 15, 1995

by Anais Nin (Author), Gunther Stuhlmann (Author), Rupert Pole (Author)
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1st edition (May 15, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0151000883
  • ISBN-13: 978-0151000883
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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57 of 63 people found the following review helpful
ANAIS NIN BRAVERY SHE FREELY WROTE ABOUT EROTICISM
By "derisorluscus" on February 28, 2000
Format: Paperback
As follower of Anais' Diaries (expurgated or not) and her novels I would like to express my admiration and my curiosity for her amazing literature and her rare personality, motivated again by "Fire". I believe that Anais was able to enjoy sex simultaneously with several men, each one of them however, playing an appropriate , no transferable, role: Hugh (husband),Joaquin Nin (father-lover),Eduardo Sanchez (cousin-brother), Henry Miller (friend-lover), Gonzalo More (lover-friend) and others. Occidental society usually attribute this promiscuous behavior only to men.As Anais shows, this may happen also among ladies, perhaps more often than accepted . Indeed, these "faults" may be heavily damned and punished by society when perpetrated by ladies. Probably Anais was the first woman , brave and courageous enough , to describe her own experiences and feelings about eroticism and sensuality written from a female point of view. Actually, looking at her inner mirror she describes herself with delicacy , ever avoiding disgusting pornography. I believe that Anais spent her life searching a Big One Love . As a result she found many "Love" and many Lovers . The sum of them never reached totality. Her Love was her fantasy and her invention, hence endless and inaccessible. On the other hand, in this and other books Anais masterly present unknown, almost domestic features and characteristic of the personality of several men and ladies who were outstanding representatives in art, literature, theatre, politics as Neruda, Alberti, Dali, Allendy, Rank, Gore and others.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Exploring the Inner Bad Girl
By bookkitten on September 8, 2002
Format: Paperback
Anais Nin was raised a devout Catholic and to earn her family's love she was expected to be demure, self-sacrificing, hard-working, and chaste. When her father abandoned the family she assumed, as children sometimes do, that he had left because she wasn't "good" enough. She played the role of "good girl" for twenty years in response. Then all hell broke loose.
What I believe is different about FIRE is that it reveals Anais's explorations and experiementation with her inner "bad girl" in a way that she had only just begun in HENRY AND JUNE and INCEST. In it she is still married to Hugh and involved with Henry Miller, but in FIRE she has a relationship with the famous analyst Otto Rank that takes some treacherous twists and turns. Her writing is as wonderful as ever. For the Nin fan, this diary is yet another must-read.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Still poetry in human form
By Katharine Mason on May 14, 2007
Format: Paperback
This book is not as compelling as "Incest", but it's still Anais: still burning, still feeling, still wholly human, with all flaws and wishy-washiness included. But again, I warn away people who may not be down with heavily sexual content. If you are, though...
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Love with a Detestable Creep
By Jim Morris VINE VOICE on April 6, 2011
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More of Anais Nin's brilliant steamy writing. This is primarily the story of her years long affair with Gustavo More', whom I started out not liking and grew to dislike more as the book went on. Amazing how a woman of such brilliance and substance can be drawn to men who did not measure up to her. She was juggling a lot of lovers at the time, her husband Hugh, who is the most honest and admirable person in the diaries, Henry Miller, terrific writer, though, in my view, not half as insightful as Anais, the aforementioned detestable More', Dr. Otto Rank, and some casual passers by. Once she broke out of the good little wifey mode Anais pretty much did what seemed like a good idea at the time, and frequently it wasn't. But what a wonderful, engrossing, passionate read this is.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Steamy but vivid
By David R. Ingham on January 4, 2011
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I am not sure if her main life plan was to do whatever made most interesting reading in her diary or whether the world is just lucky that the same person lived that way and wrote that way.
Like the woman in Spike Lee's first movie, she assembles a life out what she likes in men, incompatible qualities that couldn't exist together in the same man. She holds it all together with skillful lies and each man's willingness to believe she is his, because it feels so good at the time. Her understanding of human nature is so clear that psychoanalysts accepted her as a college as well as a lover.
This volume seems even deeper and faster moving than the previous two. By this time she has found what makes women happy and how to explain it clearly, sometimes even with the words that Henry Miller taught her.
The parts of her diaries that the people involved could bear to hear were published in her lifetime, so these volumes consist mostly of erotic and emotional secrets.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Anything by Anais Nin is a great read.
By Pamela Steele on December 1, 2009
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Anais Nin has some incredible books. Everyone one I have read I certainly have enjoyed. Her works are a little difficult to keep up with as far as the story line, but when you begin to see the larger picture unfold, each one turns into a wonderful story, that makes you feel like she is writing about her own life. A must read, but be prepared to really concentrate to keep up with all the story entails. Also, if you read one of her books I suggest you read others. Each of them kind of ties into her life, and where her journey takes her.
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