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Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937 Hardcover – May 15, 1995

by Anais Nin (Author), Gunther Stuhlmann (Author), Rupert Pole (Author)

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In the latest journal by the author of Henry and June, Nin arrives in New York, where she leaves her analyst, Otto Rank, returns to France with novelist Henry Miller, and begins an affair with the Spaniard, Gonzalo More. 25,000 first printing.

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As this gushing, erotically charged journal opens in late 1934, Nin, having left France for New York, records her complex love life with her adoring husband, American banker Hugh Guiler; her psychoanalyst, Otto Rank, whom she seduced; and writer Henry Miller, whose muse and disciple she had been during their affair in Paris. Bored and sexually unfulfilled with Guiler, Nin returns to Paris with Miller in 1935, and this diary, which extends to 1937, finds her again divided in her passions between Miller and another lover, Gonzalo More, a Peruvian communist. She describes other affairs as well, including the incestuous relationship with her father, a Spanish pianist. Although Nin (1903-1977) portrays herself as overflowing with love and maternal tenderness, one is left with the impression of overwhelming narcissism and confusion. Fans will find her mercurial prose intoxicating, in a self-portrait as distorted and self-serving as Henry and June (1986) and Incest (1992). Photos not seen by PW.
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Less shocking than Incest (1992), the third volume of Nin's provocative and provoking uncensored diaries finds our madly scribbling femme fatale in New York, where she's gone to get away from her doggedly loyal husband and from adored lover Henry Miller and indulge her fancy for analyst Otto Rank. Once again, Nin is blithely honest about her profound dishonesty, admitting that she loves telling "marvelous lies" to the men who desire her. She tires of Rank just as Miller and her husband catch up with her, then, suddenly, enters a whole new realm of potent romance with a fiery man of Inca descent, Gonzalo More. More, a man of conscience and lyrical intensity, inspires Nin to new poetic and mystical heights. These unexpurgated volumes are of particular interest to readers of the original published versions because they fill in so many puzzling omissions, but they are also remarkable for their audacity and prolificity. Just one page of Nin's extraordinary diaries contains more sex, melodrama, fantasies, confessions, and observations than most novels, and reflects much about the human psyche we strive to repress. Donna Seaman

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition (May 15, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0151000883
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0151000883
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.75 x 9.5 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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David R. Ingham

Steamy but vivid

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2011

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I am not sure if her main life plan was to do whatever made most interesting reading in her diary or whether the world is just lucky that the same person lived that way and wrote that way.
Like the woman in Spike Lee's first movie, she assembles a life out what she likes in men, incompatible qualities that couldn't exist together in the same man. She holds it all together with skillful lies and each man's willingness to believe she is his, because it feels so good at the time. Her understanding of human nature is so clear that psychoanalysts accepted her as a college as well as a lover.
This volume seems even deeper and faster moving than the previous two. By this time she has found what makes women happy and how to explain it clearly, sometimes even with the words that Henry Miller taught her.
The parts of her diaries that the people involved could bear to hear were published in her lifetime, so these volumes consist mostly of erotic and emotional secrets.

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Jim Morris

Love with a Detestable Creep

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2011

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More of Anais Nin's brilliant steamy writing. This is primarily the story of her years long affair with Gustavo More', whom I started out not liking and grew to dislike more as the book went on. Amazing how a woman of such brilliance and substance can be drawn to men who did not measure up to her. She was juggling a lot of lovers at the time, her husband Hugh, who is the most honest and admirable person in the diaries, Henry Miller, terrific writer, though, in my view, not half as insightful as Anais, the aforementioned detestable More', Dr. Otto Rank, and some casual passers by. Once she broke out of the good little wifey mode Anais pretty much did what seemed like a good idea at the time, and frequently it wasn't. But what a wonderful, engrossing, passionate read this is.

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It's is honest

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2022

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The "diary" is a realistic account of romantic love as Nature rather than social conventions would have.

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2019

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This an interesting and intimate look into the Paris that was. The author is very much like Edna ST. Vincent Millay in her ability to write, her passion and her substance abuser.

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GreenEyed Lady

Beautifully written, insightful, extraordinary

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2017

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I would refrain from making this your first purchase of any of Anais Nin's literature. I would also refrain from making this purchase if you know little about the life of this extraordinary woman. This is definitely not for anyone who is the slightest bit of a prude or who is highly judgmental of the way others live their lives. This is Nin expressing the beauty, exhilaration, frustration, and disappointments in her life with absolute clarity as she strives to live her life to the fullest.

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Pamela Steele

Anything by Anais Nin is a great read.

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2009

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Anais Nin has some incredible books. Everyone one I have read I certainly have enjoyed. Her works are a little difficult to keep up with as far as the story line, but when you begin to see the larger picture unfold, each one turns into a wonderful story, that makes you feel like she is writing about her own life. A must read, but be prepared to really concentrate to keep up with all the story entails. Also, if you read one of her books I suggest you read others. Each of them kind of ties into her life, and where her journey takes her.

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