The Four-Chambered Heart [Hardcover]

Nin Ana?n (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce; First edition (1950)
• ASIN: B0017G4FYS
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,032,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My first Anais Nin novel, March 31, 2000

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Joshua Oliphant (Sedro Woolley, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Four Chambered Heart: V3 In Nin'S Continuous Novel (Vol III) (Paperback)

This book has got me hooked and now I've started in on another of her books. It was written in a flowing beautiful manner and it went into great character depth. I think I know more about Djuna then any other fictional character.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting biographically, July 23, 2000

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This review is from: Four Chambered Heart: V3 In Nin'S Continuous Novel (Vol III) (Paperback)

But basically, the book is slight and forgettable. Except in Collages, Nin never really managed to put together a book that approached her diaries as literature. I read this as a follow-up to reading the Bair biography, and that kept me interested through the book itself.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Language, December 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Four Chambered Heart: V3 In Nin'S Continuous Novel (Vol III) (Paperback)

I loved it. Sometimes it seemed to drag on about nothing. But it dragged on beautifully I must say. It was the first Nin book I read and now I am on a binge. I loved her use of language and I related a lot to this book. It made me do some serious thinking.