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The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947 Paperback – October 18, 1972

by Anaïs Nin (Author), Gunther Stuhlmann (Editor)

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The author's experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establishment, and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. "[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of this century" (New York Times Book Review). 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; First Edition (October 18, 1972)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 015626028X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0156260282
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.58 x 5.44 x 0.63 inches

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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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Great price on a Great classic! LOVE IT!!

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I was so surprised to get this great book at such a low price. I love this book, and plan to get the other diary books of this author soon on Amazon. Cannot beat these deals!!!!

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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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Ruth Edlund

Offers No Sense of Artistic Evolution

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2001

This volume was the fourth in the published series of expurgated diaries beginning with the 1931 manuscript diaries of the prolific Anais Nin.
Unfortunately, although this volume begins with diary entries written some thirteen years after those in the first published volume, the reader has no sense that Nin's craft of diary-keeping as an art form evolved or matured in those thirteen years. It is impossible to tell whether this stems from Nin's habit of editing and reworking her material over the years, thus possibly refining early entries until they were on a par with her later work, or whether Nin was simply never able to improve on her first work inspired by her meeting Henry Miller.
Deidre Bair's biography of Nin reveals the interesting tidbit that Nin stopped keeping diaries in volume form some time during 1946, partway through this volume. After 1946 (particularly since Nin soon found herself living with two men, one on each coast), she jotted down notes on whatever papers were handy and tossed the notes into manila folders. The decrease in quality associated with this apparent lack of care shows, I think, as this volume progresses.
The life she was then leading, although distracting her from the diary, hardly constituted a work of art in and of itself. Nin spends much of this volume "ensorcelling" teenage boys as a woman in her forties. She declares frequently that she identifies with the young, and surrounds herself with them in preference to the rigid folks her own age. A more jaded view of Nin's behavior at this time is that men her own age were able to see through her games in a way that boys did not have the life experience to do. Although she frequently claims tremendous insight and understanding of psychoanalysis, she is ultimately blind to the uglier aspects of the larger patterns of her life at this time.
Because this is the expurgated version of the diary, this volume omits a critical event: Anais's meeting Rupert Pole, whom she would later marry, in 1947.
Verdict: only for hardcore Anais Nin fans.

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Acabo de empezar a leer el libro y me han sorprendido los párrafos del diario que el editor, Gunther Sthulmann, ha citado en el prólogo. Parecen de una asombrosa actualidad. Anaïs Nin habla de los "americanos" y su punto de vista como francesa europea.

Durante años, Gran Bretaña ha sido un extraordinario balón de oxígeno y de equilibrio frente a Francia y Alemania, para la UE y para el mundo. He sido fan del Brexit porque pensaba que eso daría más alas a Inglaterra y más desarrollo y eso repercutiría positivamente pero parece que está siendo fagocitada por los americanos. En alguna universidad española de corte neoliberal incluso ha desaparecido la bibliografía británica a favor de la americana.

Anaïs dice que le gustaría ser amiga de Isak Dinesen pero que no ella no es una imitadora de estilos pasados como Jane Austen. En eso discrepo pues soy ardientemente ferviente de Jane Austen y de lo británico.

En fin, cito uno de los párrafos del prólogo de Gunther Stulmann:

"In this country, among the people who fielded the giant armada that defeated Hitler's Germany, that atom-blasted Japan into surrender, she perceived, amidst all the power and technology, a curious emptiness. "The drama of our present life," she writes, is that there is "nothing big enough, deep enough, strong enough." America`s most active contribution to the formation of character, se notes, is the development of an impermeable shell behind which to hide. "A tough hide. Grow it early."

Most of the men she meets are "plain, one-dimensional." She deplores their single-mindedness, their lack of color. They are "prosaic down-to-earth, always talking of politics, never for one moment in the world of music and pleasure, never free of the weight of the daily problems, never joyous, never elated, made of either concrete and steel or like workhorses, indifferent to their bodies, obsessed with power."

She misses meaningful personal relationships. "Every friend I reach out here to seems incapable of big friendship." The depersonalization of relationships alarms her. "My friendships, instead of being concentrated on a very few, as in Paris, have become fragmented into many. I find only partial relationships."

"I am aware." she writes, "that waht I love and seek is illusive, tricky....What ought to be and not what is interests me....In between, an all-consuming loneliness."

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For the artist, who is not merely a technician or a propagandist, the American climate does not seem very propitious ("Much writing in America has confused banality with simplicity, and the cliché with universal sincerity"), the emphasis on competition, on "bigger and better." exaggerated.

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"I don't think the American obsession with politics and economics has improved anything."

David Russell

Anais Nin - A Visionary Diary

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2012

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This diary is an essential read for anyone wanting to appreciate the full depth and significance of Anais Nin. It contains incredibly astute observations about the creative process, including relating the verbal/auditory to the visual. Anais was clearly a pivotal figure of her time. The complexities of her relationship with Edmund Wilson are infinitely fascinating, as are her observations on Andre Breton and Salvador Dali.

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