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Reading her words on page stunned, truly. So lush. Such an incredible exploration of the internal life of Woman, of the sensual life, of the writer's life.
I encourage you to read all the volumes, as well as Nin's other work, to get a fuller understanding - but don't stop there! You MUST also then read Henry Miller's works, and then one of the books that includes their correspondence. Simply amazing.
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Anais Nin began a letter to her father, on the ship that carried her, her mother and brothers, away from him, away from Europe and to New York City. She was 11. The letter was never sent, but instead developed into a diary that would become legendary by the time she reached her late 20s. Henry Miller helped feed the legend by stating that, once published, Anais Nin's diary would take its place beside the great literary revelations of the 20th Century. Upon publication in the 1960s, many felt that the acclaim was justified. Though original plans called for the publication of only one volume, demand was so great that seven volumes in all would be eventually be published.
In this present volume (1939-1944), Anais has taken refuge once again in the United States, escaping the war that has engulfed most of Europe and destroyed her much beloved literary community back home in Paris. This is the second time she has had to immigrate to the US, and its culture seems just as alien and unwelcoming as it did the first time. Nin finds the transition particularly difficult because her "European" writing style is not warmly received; American audiences are more interested in realism than sur-realism. Her work is deemed obscure and un-publishable. But Anais Nin does not cave to pressure. She forges a community with other artists in the Manhattan literary world, creating something close to what she had in Paris with Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell.
I enjoyed this volume because, well, I'm fascinated with Anais Nin's work, persona, and overall career. I enjoy its panoramic quality, and that it gives me insight into a world of which I would otherwise be totally ignorant, as I was merely two-years-old when Anais Nin died in 1977.Read more ›
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This series is her own edit of her accumulated adult diaries. It is the outcome of much effort to find an acceptable way of publishing what other writers considered to be her best work. Her solution was to edit out her "private life", that is her secrets such as love affairs, casual sex and bigamy. She was not particularly secretive, so this still left plenty of material to edit down into this series of publications, which finally brought her the fame she had always craved and expected.
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