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Winter Of Artifice: Three Novelettes Paperback – January 1, 1961

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Winter of Artifice is a collection of novelettes: ‘Stella,’ ‘Winter of Artifice,’ and ‘The Voice.’

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Swallow Press
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January 1, 1961
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5.25 x 0.4 x 8.25 inches
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080400322X
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978-0804003223
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“The cadences… are those of a musician; its colour that of a painter.”—London Sunday Times

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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, 1961)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 130 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 080400322X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804003223
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.4 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #5,647,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,156 in American Fiction Anthologies
- #190,508 in Literary Fiction (Books)

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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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Sarah

One of my favorites

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2020

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One of my most favorite books. Any fan of Nin would love this.

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Nadia555

Flawed, but uniquely beautiful.

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2018

I loved the second novelette, ‘Winter of Artifice’; which is essentially a fictionalised account of her real life relationship with her father. If you’ve read ‘Incest’ (arguably Nin’s best work), you’ll be well familiar with the story of Nin’s reunion with her father. This iteration of that familiar story is colder and more haunting—a reflection on the impossibility of love and the emptiness that follows one around forever in the absence of a father. It’s tragic, as you really see how this critical relationship has shaped Nin and her work. Interestingly it is placed before the third novelette, The Voice, which is about a father figure of sorts; a wise but unseen male to whom the public confides, and indeed is addicted to confiding (such that a character even fabricates new and shocking stories, to maintain her relationship with The Voice). The Voice ends up being a slouched man of little consequence when removed from his professional setting. I believe this character to be based on Allendy, Anais’ psychoanalyst who was a disappointment (and at times even a joke) to her when they became intimate outside of their professional relationship. Overall, I enjoyed Winter of Artifice and was haunted by the novelette of the same name, but Anais would go on to do better, more consistent work than this.

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DT

Long tangents of prose

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2019

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Each fictional story is based on relationships in Nin's life. The first dealt with a writer and his wife (based on Henry Miller and his wife) both of whom she was attracted to, then the complicated relationship with her father who abandoned the family when she was a child, and her professional and personal relationship with her therapist. Here’s a line that grabbed me from the first story: “Let’s cultivate our insanity like precious flowers.” Nin is a truly gifted writer. The way she weaves words is magical and mesmerizing. However, in each of the three stories I felt that her prose went off on long tangents that lost me. Sometimes I wasn’t quite sure what she was trying to convey and the long passages were difficult to get through. Still, there are moments of great insight and brilliant prose. She inspires me as a writer.

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Amelia Hupe

winter artifice

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2013

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Jamie Harmon

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2015

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Great work from one of my favorite authors.

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ALA

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on February 25, 2018

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Excellent read

B. Fatemi

A father daughter novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2014

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Like another great novel MY BEAUTIFUL
STRANGERS, which also deals with an idolized
father/daughter relationship, not sure if it's available
in England yet.

Patricia Scotty

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2016

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Not her best