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Nearer the Moon: From a Journal of Love : The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-1939 (Vol 4) Hardcover – November, 1996

by Anais Nin (Author), Gunther Stuhlmann (Author), Vicki Aus (Editor)

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Hardcover: 396 pages
Publisher: Harcourt; 1st edition (November 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0151000891
ISBN-13: 978-0151000890
Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.2 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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So Near And Yet So Far

By Ruth Edlund on January 13, 2003

Format: Hardcover

This unexpurgated volume of Anais Nin's diary contains entries from March 4, 1937 to October 23, 1939. The preface by Rupert Pole (her Los Angeles widower, as opposed to the late Hugh Guiler, her New York widower) notes, "Toward the end of her life Anais and I discussed the original diaries, and she asked me to publish all her diaries just as she wrote them."
Having now read four volumes of the unexpurgated diary, it is my educated opinion that this was _not_ a good idea. It is unfortunate that Pole has dutifully released this volume of material in this form. It's like he published the first draft of a book--there is so much dross among the gold that I often felt that I was not so much reading as doing penance. It is apparent now that not all the material cut from the expurgated volumes was eliminated because of its scandalousness. If we have learned anything after the sexual revolution, surely it is that even the salacious can be dull.
And yet. And yet. Amidst Nin's whiny posturing, her mechanical proclamations of audacity and innocence, nestle passages of such power and beauty (especially starting in 1938) that this volume intermittently becomes riveting. There are also a number of entries where Nin drops her self-glorifying posturing and looks at her own behavior with clear and unflinching eyes. For the first time, for example, I began to understand what she saw in Gonzalo, something that was a mystery to me even from the previous unexpurgated volumes. She becomes enormously likeable when she appears to be displaying some candor.
I regard it as truly unfortunate that this book is unlikely to have many readers owing to its lack of editorial discipline. Be patient with it, but be prepared to skim, and don't read it as an introduction to Nin's work.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

More of the Greatest Diary Ever

By Jim Morris VINE VOICE on April 6, 2011

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Some of the readers who have reviewed this book have criticized it as not being up to the level of its predecessors. I think they mean it's not as steamy. Face it, the woman was getting a bit older, calmer, and more mature. She was losing the feverish intensity of her youth. But the beauty of the Anais Diaries, other than the view they give of this brilliant, underappreciated author is that they offer an in-depth look at an entire life, starting when she was a by turns dreamy and extremely practical 11-year old girl, longing for her father and being a good girl, through her twenties and thirties when she had the courage to try everything and the sense to lie about it brilliantly.
I wish the editors had gone on and done the "personal" versions of her later diaries, as I'm just prurient enough that I'd like to have known what her love life was like in middle and early old age. But the later diaries show a woman who had achieved her ambitions and peace with herself.
I'll be honest here. I love Anais Nin. I'll be more honest; I am IN love with Anais Nin. Reading all of these diaries is my greatest literary adventure since discovering Carlos Castaneda in 1975. An in depth reading of the diaries is one of the most profound learning experiences a reader can find. If you want to go on with it you can read Henry Miller, and Proust and all the books that influenced her. You could make a life out of it.
I think though it would be better to live one. That is her lesson; live your own life, not the canned life the society wants to sell you.

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The Love LIfe and Career of an Early 20th Century Woman

By David R. Ingham on February 7, 2011

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This is the last, so far published, of the Anaïs Nin's Unexpurgated diaries, edited by her second (bigamous) husband Rupert Pole, after her death and that of nearly everyone else discussed. The intensity of her love life continues. Her style continues to evolve to more emotion, sensation and thought brought up from the subconscious, and less external facts. This was partly due to the influence of psychoanalysis and Surrealism.
She, ahead of most women, was involved in the change of role from helping men to working independently. This was aggravated by her fear of abandonment, left from the early loss of her father. She was in conflict between her own ambition and the fear of losing her men if she competed successfully with them. She was starting to succeed with her own fiction at this time, but her greatest literary success was still her contribution, in every possible way, to Henry Miller's work. This book itself is among her best works and probably of more lasting value than Henry's work, but not in a form that could be published during her life time.
Her conflicts and neuroses contribute to the unique value of these books. The emotional scars left by her father contribute to the complexity of her love life and to her difficult but intense and semi-promiscuous sex life. Her partially liberated role and her dependence on the diary for emotional support made it difficult for her to convert from diary writing to fiction, resulting in writing more real and candid than possible when writing for publication.Read more ›

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