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The Four-Chambered Heart

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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.

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.

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.

This is Anais Nin's third novel. It tells about a woman, Djuna her love, her thoughts, her emotions, her doubts, her decisions, her sacrifice . Written in a very soft and profound style.

This is a profound novel about a young but definitely a woman's life.

This is an autobiographical novel about a woman who meets a man on a boat in Paris to do it. They do it a lot and often. Then his wife finds out, and it ends in despair, with some very silly symbolism thrown in about sinking boats while on their boat. I can't say that I got much of anything out of this book, but as far as it went it wasn't too bad. What she is trying to do is portray her affair as a good rather than a dishonorable or bad thing. The execution of it is just mediocre. I do not think Nin is a distinguished writer, either in style or insight.

Not recommended.