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Seduction of the Minotaur Paperback – January 1, 1961

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Seduction of the Minotaur is an example of Anaø¯s Nins most mature and cohesive fiction. The central character, Lillian, arrives in an exotically primitive Mexico from New York, in part to forget her crumbling marriage and to find flow in her life after years of stasis. She befriends Dr. Hernandez, who, like Lillian, is also trying to forget, to escape, which he does with violence, shocking Lillian into facing her inner demon, the Minotaur. Critic Oliver Evans says of Seduction of the Minotaur: Its symbolism is the most complicated of any of Miss Nins longer works¦and at the same time it makes more concessions¦to the tradition of the realistic novel: the result is a work of unusual richness. Consider this passage: It was the time of the year when everyones attention was focused on the moon. The first terrestrial body to be explored will undoubtedly be the moon. Yet how little we know about human bei

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152 pages
Language

English
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Swallow Press
Publication date

January 1, 1961
Dimensions

5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-10

0804002681
ISBN-13

978-0804002684
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“Beautiful, rare novels.”
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“A prose/poetry dream: a lyrical celebration of the inner life and the images it evokes.”
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Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) remains 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 currently publishes sixteen other titles by or about Anaïs Nin.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Swallow Press (January 1, 1961)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0804002681
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804002684
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 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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Jim Wheeler

Many Sides of Life

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2021

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To be confronted with the present encapsulated in the past, confronted with a search for meaning, and finally made aware of yourself searching for a sense of wholeness takes one out of the mundane and moves into the future. This is a good procession. One that creates a new possibility.

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StevieGee1945

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2016

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I enjoyed the 5-part series a lot. Read it slowly. Take it in.

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Jim Morris

Exotic Observations

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2012

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For the most part I much prefer Nin's diaries to her novels. But I rated this five stars because she is never less than great. Nin disdains all writing technique, scenes, plot, but she's great on characterization and wonderful sensual descriptions of her settings. She has a rep as a writer of erotica, and that rep is well deserved, but there is little of that here. What's really fun is to read her diaries from the same period and setting, so you can see what this was based on. If you love her, and I do, you love her better than anybody. She's just great.

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Ann Matteson

Beautiful

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2014

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Anais Nin was a beautiful writer. This book takes you to far away lands. You can almost smell the flowers.

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GOLCONDA, HERE I COME!

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2000

Anais has done it again. A book which captures the reader's need for sensual, lyrical description as well as having the ability to allow common emotional themes to transcend the two covers, Nin paints for us the city of Golconda, Mexico, with its poor but happy natives and sweltering tropical escapism. The main character, Lillian, is a jazz musician who travels to Golconda for a 3 month stint and along the way rediscovers the beauty of Mexico she knew as a child, of the wise and natural existence known to those she meets, and the demons she must exercise from her own past. A beautiful exploration into human existence. If you liked Anais' diaries, try this story...you will see links into her own past. And perhaps, even yours.

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karen middlebrook

One Star

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2016

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Honestly I was confused from start to finish. Weird rambling, supposed to be erotic apparently?

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