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Cities of the Interior Paperback – January 1, 1975

by Anaïs Nin (Author), Sharon Spencer (Introduction), Gunther Stuhlmann (Foreword)

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Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin began in 1946 to appear in quiet succession. Though published separately over the next fifteen years, the five were conceived as a continuous experience—a continuous novel like Proust’s, real and flowing as a river.

The full impact of Anaïs Nin’s genius is only to be found through reading the novels in context and in succession. They form a rich, luminous tapestry whose overall theme Nin has called “woman at war with herself.” Characters, symbols appear and reappear: now one, now another unfolding, gradually revealing, changing, struggling, growing, and Nin had forged an evocative language all her own for the telling.

“The diary taught me that there were no neat ends to novels, no neat denouement, no neat synthesis,” she explains. “So I began an endless novel, a novel in which the climaxes consisted of discoveries in awareness, each step in awareness becoming a stage in the growth like the layers in trees.”

Cities of the Interior fulfills a long–time desire on the part of readers, publisher, and Anaïs Nin herself to reunite the five novels in a single volume.

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“A prose/poetry dream; a lyrical celebration of the inner life and the images it evokes.”—Daniel Stern

“Beautiful, rare novels.”—Karl Shapiro

”Real and unmistakable genius.”—Rebecca West

“She explores relationships on a level to which few contemporary novelists penetrate.”—The Atlantic

“She wishes to immerse readers in that flow of sensibility and reflection from which human beings distill the significance of what they do and suffer.”—New York Times

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Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) is an iconic literary figure and one of the most notable experimental writers of the twentieth century. As one of the first women to explore female erotica, Nin revealed the inner desires of her characters in a way that made her works a touchstone for later feminist writers. Swallow Press is the premier US publisher of books by and about Nin.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Swallow Press (January 1, 1975)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 588 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0804006660
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804006668
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.54 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.4 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #982,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,204 in American Fiction Anthologies
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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, most notably with the anthology The Portable Anais Nin (2011).

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David R. Ingham

Pure Art, Ahead of its Time

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2011

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Let me quote from a letter about Spy in the Hose of Love by Felix Pollak that the author included in her published diary:
"This novel's whole theme must be anathema in a country that, despite its hectic overcompensations, is still laboring under the Puritan strain; for even in the sexiest novels produced here, sex is always treated functionally; a recurrent need leading to recurrent acts, to concessions, whether deplored or affirmed, to natural functions that must be fulfilled so that they can be forgotten and make room for higher things. While in your books, and most clearly in Spy, sex is exposed as the ever present life force, the life of the senses as all-pervading. Eros, sensuality are shown as the spark plugs that set the whole machinery in motion, as the source, the spring, the key, the Mother in the Goethe sense. Unity in manifoldness, no tortuous and artificial duality, no Christian rift between mind and body, no sterile divorce of emotion from reason, but emotion and reason inseparably mated and molded together as effect and cause; instincts, drives seen as what they are: the wire pullers of even the most rational thought processes. The tremendous hidden portion of the tiny iceberg visible above the waters."

This above author sees clearly why these books were not popular when first published. They are written from a fusion of literature with psychoanalysis that did not begin to reach America until the 1960s. Consciousness is only a small human addition to a predominantly mammalian mind. Anais was faithful to pure art and to the future.

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Jenn

life changing book

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2013

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This book will lead you to some intense self realization. The words are like poetry. Characters are honest and real.

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Niko Nin

If you're an Anais Nin fan you'll want this for your collection!

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2011

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I'm sorry I gave this book away. It is quintessential Anais Nin. I don't need to elaborate. If you're a fan you'll understand.

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Miguel A. Rocha

Cities of the Interior by Anais Nin

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2009

Excellent product and outstanding delivery. I was very pleased with the communication and updating of delivery status and confirmations.

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Athenasculptress

What a Grand Description of People and their Motivations

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2008

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This book differs greatly from her better known Little Birds and Delta of Venus. The characters Are The Story. It is rich in description, and the quirks and strivings of each persona is so minutely described, that it rings true these many decades later. I am sure a person in the book will remind you of someone you know.

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H. NIN

If you like PROSE...

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2013

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WRITEN FOR THE 19TH CENTURY AUDIENCES. . .in prose. The story line will be appreciated in a sweep of uninterrupted reading or you'll likely never get back to it.

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Serenity

Pure Anais

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2013

I'm basically writing this in response to the author who said "If you like PROSE..."

Well, I agree with him or her. Nin was really, really lacking in plot. (My God, I wish she WOULD have written plot into her stories! I think she would have truly been recognized as a world-class fiction writer if she had. Her erotic stories (Delta of Venus, Little Birds) were best sellers because they combined her genius for language and emotions with a plot.)

Her stories are more like portraits of certain people or places. But the language is so beautiful, it was worth reading, at least for me.
But I admit, it's not for everyone.

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Mother of Man

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2019

This is an elliptical and bizarre journey through the minds, emotions and affairs of Djuna and Lillian. There are other people involved but the novel centers mainly on their attempts to make sense of themselves and each other.

Anaïs Nin played with language in a way that baffles the mind to make coherent sense of it. You get the impression that the two women are traveling through an odd kind of dreamscape, one informed and deformed by the myriad characters that encounter them. They try to find happiness in sexual affair only to wind up anxious and lonely as the men disappoint them or keep them at an emotional distance.

But you don’t care about the men so much as you do about the women. You don’t yearn for happy endings because they care for none. The author wrote them to be read in no particular order. So Djuna and Lillian are both attached to the present and detached from the future.

If you like reading with more than a touch of the illusory and surreal, the novels herein will be the things for you. Those who prefer more straightforward reading should take themselves elsewhere.

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