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The Diary Of Anais Nin Volume 3 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944) Paperback – Illustrated, March 24, 1971

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Nin's years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. "Transcending mere self-revelation... the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Proust...dream and fact are balanced and...in their joining lie the elements of masterpiece" (Washington Post). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.

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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 was the author of several novels, short stories, critical studies, a collection of essays, nine published volumes of her Diary, and two volumes of erotica, Delta of Venus and Little Birds.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books Classics (March 24, 1971)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 348 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0156260271
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0156260275
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.87 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #527,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,129 in Literary Diaries & Journals
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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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lilcreative

Amazing!

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2014

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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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LisaJansec

Anais Nin diaries

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2012

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These diaries are captivating - I had associated Anais Nin with risque erotic writing, but she is so much more than this - such a rare, sensitive, perceptive style of writing, and such intelligent and lucid observations of people, of psychology, of interpersonal nuances, and creativity. A rich inner life, and way ahead of her time.

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David R. Ingham

A litterary classic sries

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2012

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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Linda M. Dancker

A. Nin

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2010

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I bought this book for a friend and have not read it. Thus, I cannot provide you with a review.

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2019

World War 2 forces Anais Nin to leave Europe and seek refuge in New York. Her impressions of America are almost entirely negative. She makes full effort to be in the moment, but she cannot find her place. The reception to ‘Winter of Artifice’ is cold; interpreted as pure biography by the few who read it. Nin repudiates the commercialism of America. She comes back time and again to the theme of loneliness. She laments the loss of the cafe life in Paris, the ease with which you could meet any artist you admired.

Henry Miller is in California (several of his letters appear here). Gonzalo and Helba accompany Nin to New York. Many portraits of friends appear here. Nin evinces significant growth by facing her masochism, her immolation. Sadly even by the end of the book she is trying to rescue those who can’t be rescued, like Gonzalo (for whom she buys a commercial printing press). Her development is painful; she is terrified of isolation. A bright spark in this volume comes when Nin befriends a group of Haitians who she notes are more vital than her White friends.

Nin writes erotica for $1 per page for an old man, The Collector. She resents having to crank up the sensuality and reduce the poetic flights. But such is her desperation for money during this period that she accepts the terms. Ironically she has a rare gift for erotica; her stylised writing lends well to ‘adult fairytales’.

Overall I found Vol 3 to be good, although not truly great as I will admit to some boredom. The letters and abstract flights became a bit much. However it still captures Nin during a significant growth period. Some of her insights are so exact that they floor you, and her writing is as sensitive and beautiful as ever.

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"diulay"

all female writers/readers should read about

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2000

anais was so frank & true to her feelings& what she wrote was warm & sweet,though her erotic story was still a bit leg-behind than henry miller's, she's still a very good female writer.

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Il y a beaucoup de fautes de frappe dans l'édition kindle

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