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The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel Paperback – January 1, 1959

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The Four-Chambered Heart, Anaïs Nin’s 1950 novel, recounts the real-life affair she conducted with café guitarist Gonzalo Moré in 1936. Nin and Moré rented a house-boat on the Seine, and under the pervading influence of the boat’s watchman and Moré’s wife Helba, developed a relationship. Moré; named the boat Nanankepichu, meaning "not really a home."

In the novel, which Nin drew from her experiences on the boat, the characters are clearly based. Djuna is an embodiment of Nin herself. A young dancer in search of fulfillment, she encapsulates all that the author was striving for at that time. The character of Djuna features in other novels, perhaps weaving a directly autobiographical thread into Nin’s fiction. The gypsy musician, Rango, is therefore Moré, and his invalid wife is Zora. The old watchman is present as a force which, along with Zora, works against the lovers in their quest for happiness.

Nin’s main concern is the "outside," and how it affects the "interior." Water is a cleverly used theme. “I have no great fear of depths,” says Djuna, “and a great fear of shallow living.” Rango and Djuna’s relationship is, in effect, their effort to remain afloat. Often, Nin employs a stream of consciousness, especially in her flowing analyses of love, life and music, which continues the water image.

Anaïs Nin’s writing is typically exquisite in its detail and texture. She describes Paris: its "black lacquered cobblestones" and "silver filigree trees." The "humid scarfs of fog" on the river, and "the sharp incense of roasted chestnuts" reveal their source through their reality: Nin’s personal experience.

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January 1, 1959
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0804001219
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978-0804001212
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"The Four-Chambered Heart stands as a fine example of how Anaïs Nin used the incidents of her life to craft her novels. It is her clarity of tone and flair for magic and romance that give this work its unique potency. Essentially, it is fiction made rich by the inspiration of real life."—Susie Gordon, anaisnin.com reviewer

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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; 1st edition (January 1, 1959)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 187 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0804001219
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804001212
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.49 x 0.55 x 8.51 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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Jim Morris

More essay than novel

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2012

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I have hesitated to review Anais Nin's novels for a number of reasons. The first is that they're not really quite novels, but more like essays on her mix and match versions of the lives of people she knew.
That said, they're brilliant, and well worth the read.
And THAT said, they're nowhere near as good as her diaries, which are incandescent works of genius.

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Martina Rinaldi (martirin@tin.it)

Incredibly soft and thoghtful

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 1999

This is Anais Nin's third novel. It tells about a woman, Djuna her love, her thoughts, her emotions, her doubts, her decisions, her sacrifice . Written in a very soft and profound style.

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Gary A. Hammer

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Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2014

great

A complex story told in a stream of consciousness style that seems more memoir than fiction.

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2015

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I was attracted to this book, the first I have ready by Anais Nin, because it was the source for the following quote:

"Djuna, you're taking me to the bottom of the sea to live, like a real mermaid."
"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. But you, poor Rango, you're from the mountain, water is not your element. You won't be happy."
"Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel. Where are we sailing now?"

It's a complex story told in a stream of consciousness style that seems more memoir than fiction.

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The Heart us not always a lonely hunter

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2005

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This is a profound novel about a young but definitely a woman's life.

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Nadia555

A psychological and emotional drama

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2018

Beautifully written, as you would expect. At times, the nuances of Djuna’s love are described so sensitively and accurately that you’ll be underlining. However at times these descriptions border on the mawkish. It is not solid throughout, as Under a Glass Bell and Collages are. I agree that nothing actually happens; it’s a psychological and emotional novel about Djuna’s obsession with a primitive man named Rango. Rango is a bit one-dimensional; a hobo who occasionally demonstrates an attractive masculinity (such as when he rescues Djuna with a rowboat and takes on a mythical quality as her rescuer). Rango is already spoken for by a hypochondriac, Zora, who uses her feigned illnesses to manipulate both Rango and Djuna. Djuna becomes pathetic in her self-sacrifice and the end, where she finds (a fairly superficial) insight into her condition, is unsatisfying. It fizzles rather than illuminates. It’s worth reading once, but it’s inessential.

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Joshua Oliphant

My first Anais Nin novel

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2000

This book has got me hooked and now I've started in on another of her books. It was written in a flowing beautiful manner and it went into great character depth. I think I know more about Djuna then any other fictional character.

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Cristina

Tutto perfetto

Reviewed in Italy on November 14, 2014

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Tutto perfetto!Il libro è in buone condizioni come descritto ed è arrivato entro i tempi di spedizione. Se dovessi trovare da loro qualche altro libro di mio interesse comprerò di nuovo sicuramente!

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