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1. Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937 by Anaïs Nin | |
Paperback: 448
Pages
(1996-07-22)
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A. Nin
Anything by Anais Nin is a great read.
Still poetry in human form
Interior decorating of the heart Diary opening with a visit to New York accompanying Dr Otto Rank. Searches for release from Rank. Back to Paris, Henry, Hugh, and to find Gonzalo More. Desriptions of interior worlds built for Hugh, Gonzalo, and Henry. Beautiful. Houseboat on the Seine, "Nanankepichu", Villa Seurat, Louveciennes.
Exploring the Inner Bad Girl What I believe is different about FIRE is that it reveals Anais's explorations and experiementation with her inner "bad girl" in a way that she had only just begun in HENRY AND JUNE and INCEST.In it she is still married to Hugh and involved with Henry Miller, but in FIRE she has a relationship with the famous analyst Otto Rank that takes some treacherous twists and turns.Her writing is as wonderful as ever.For the Nin fan, this diary is yet another must-read. ... Read more |
2. The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(1969-03-19)
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A bubble punctured
No wonder she's in the canon
the magic of the internet is working!
Beautiful scrutiny, a work of art
Cult Memoir |
3. Delta of Venus by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2004-02-02)
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Stories you won't forget
No good!
Delta of Venus.
A Humanist's Guide to the Human Body
Classic erotica |
4. The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939 by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 357
Pages
(1967)
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A Nin
A coherent extension of the first volume In the first volume of the diary, we meet Anais Nin living outside of Paris with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler. She has just published her study of DH Lawrence and is about to meet Henry Miller and his fascinating and dramatic wife, June. All characters from the previous volume factor into this second installment, but many new people are introduced. Gonzalo, a Peruvian Marxist, and his wife Helba, are the most interesting new characters. Famous Freudian analyst Otto Rank is also depicted. Anais works with Rank in New York; she struggles to understand whether she is meant to be an analyst or a writer. Yes, in what strikes me as an odd occurence, Anais Nin - with no formal training - is allowed to take on patients. Of the first two volumes, I'd have to say that this is my favorite. There is more movement, and with World War II as a backdrop, there is more social conscience on display. "Politics, all of them," Anais writes in an astute observation that, sadly, is still true 70 years later, "seemed rotten to the core and all based on economics, not humanitarianism." Indeed, in this volume Anais seems more aware of the world around her and less preoccupied with herself, well, a little less so. But, as with all other volumes in this series of diaries, and just about all of Anais Nin's literature, the reader is wise to look more for poetic truth than literal reality. What I mean is, the diaries of Anais Nin are most likely not verbatim transcriptions of the manuscript versions (the difference between this original series and the unexpurgated versions pretty much proves this point). They are something closer to being stylized, masterfully edited "memory books" and persona self-creation. But it's an entertaining, romantic, and often beautiful persona. Andrew Parodi
Anais is always searching |
5. Little Birds by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 168
Pages
(2004-02-02)
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Unimaginative erotica
Not Plot Laden Poke and Jab...
SUPERBLY WRITTEN SHORT EROTICA
fancy porn
Wonderful writing, fascinating scenes, truly a Nin-fan's must! |
6. Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932) by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 281
Pages
(1990-10-29)
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Excruciating
Great reading.
I didn't enjoy this book at all
Froid et faux
Wow! |
7. Incest: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932-1934) by Anaïs Nin | |
Paperback: 432
Pages
(1993-09-16)
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A. Nin
seductively addictive
Not for the easily offended
I LOVE Anais Nin's honesty and ability to divulge!
Perhaps the best of Nin's writing is here |
8. The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944 by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 327
Pages
(1971-03-24)
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A. Nin
Anais Nin confronts New York City
Anais Nin confronts New York City
all female writers/readers should read about
Descoveryof an excellent diarist!!! |
9. Under A Glass Bell (Swallow Paperbook) by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 101
Pages
(1948-01-01)
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A. Nin
Nin's Narcissistic Short Stories
The Fruits of Surrealism Because of Edmund Wilson's favorable review (and he was, of course, the king of critics) this was the collection of stories that finally brought Nin's work to the attention of public.Her writing style is simply stunning.Imagine distilling a story, as one distills a liquid, down to the final crystals.Or creating a beautiful and poetic ritual out of somethingmundane (such as the Geisha's tea ceremony). I think my personal favorites in this collection are "Ragtime," an amazing description of the poverty-stricken rag-picking community in 1930s Paris, "The Mouse," about Nin's fearful maid, and "Birth," the now notorious story about Nin's abortion.Seem like ugly topics?You'd be amazed at how beautiful Nin can render them. It takes a sensitive reader to understand Anais Nin's writing, but if you are that, I think you will find value in these stories.
"it had perfume of rich lives.heavily impregnated furniture"
Disapointment |
10. The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955 by Anaïs Nin | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(1975-03-26)
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A. Nin
The Rich and Continuing Saga
Beautiful writing that I use as meditations The downside to her beautiful prose is that often it is hard to follow what she is talking about. Though I am a huge fan of Anais Nin, I always struggle with her writing, particularly these "expurgated" diaries; because they were so heavily edited they seem very choppy at times. Anais also was not in the habit of sticking to one topic per paragraph. And it is common for one paragraph to be completely unrelated to the previous. I often become so bewildered that I have to put the book down. (It also doesn't help that I was only two when Anais died in 1977, meaning I am often completely unfamiliar with the topics she discusses.) I now use her diaries as meditations, and am content to read a passage or even paragraph at a time. It no longer bothers me that I often get lost. One paragraph, or even one sentence, often contains enough beauty to make it unimportant that I have no idea what she's talking about (many things I have understood have not been nearly as beautiful). She just had an awesome command of language! My favorite passage in Volume Five is on the very first page where she describes her time in Acapulco. It's stunning poetry! I've never seen anyone else write like this. I would certainly agree that previous knowledge of Anais's life is helpful in appreciating her diaries and all other works. I am currently reading ANAIS NIN: A BIOGRAPHY by Deirdre Bair. Ms. Bair's book has been incredibly helpful in understanding Nin's work. I recommend Bair's biography of Nin in addition to THE DAIRY OF ANAIS NIN: VOLUME FIVE 1947-1955.
Anais's Excellent Adventure This volume appears to have been written with more care than the 1944-47 volume, perhaps because with Nin's second marriage she was no longer spending as much time compulsively "ensorcelling" younger men. Nin dates her entries by the month or season of the year, and they appear to be written with reflection, rather than in the heat of the moment. This suggests also that the entries may have been more heavily edited, either before they were ever incorporated into the diary or later, for publication. This raises an interesting question for which there is no answer:If a diary is edited by the alteration of text, as opposed to the deletion of uninteresting or controversial matter, should it still be considered a diary? How much editing can be done before a work becomes no longer a diary but a series of essays? It depends on what the definition of "diary" is, of course, but I think there is a good argument that this volume is no longer a bad diary, as volume four was, but a fairly good series of essays. A number of interesting events happen in Nin's outer life in this volume that are engagingly described. She goes to Mexico and describes her exotic life there quite beautifully. She copes with the death of her mother. She has an interesting literary friendship with James Leo Herlihy more than a decade before his great success as the author of the book _Midnight Cowboy_. She drops acid under laboratory conditions (in 1955!). Nin doesn't seem as whiny about her inner life as she did in volume four of this series. Her ongoing struggles with lack of literary recognition are thus easier for at least this reader to take in stride than in volume four. Nin also appears to achieve some sort of psychological breakthough with her therapist of that period, Dr. Inge Bogner, and, as Nin describes it, achieves objectivity. Whatever it was, she seems less frantic at this juncture in her life. Because Nin has a track record of being somewhat slippery, it is always a great temptation to read her diary volumes in tandem with her letters, biographies...and fiction. Therein lies the rub with her constant complaints about her lack of literary recognition. Although I respect her ambition to show psychoanalytic process in her characters, I just find that she mastered the diary genre much more than the fiction forms she attempted. Read Amy Bloom's and Peter Kramer's fiction, not Nin's, if you want intense psychological fiction, but do read Nin's diary. Verdict: pretty good, but hard to appreciate fully unless you know a lot about Nin and her work. ... Read more |
11. White Stains (Volume 0) by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2009-03-31)
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Vintage Erotica at its Best
Luscious lovers
Nin falls short I also felt that White Stains wasdirected to a male audience more than a female one, which disappointed meafter Delta of Venus's abiguity.White Stains was also much less daringand provocative than Nin's other work. This is certainly a quality workof erotica, just not up to snuff compared to Nin's other sexy tales. ... Read more |
12. The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947 by Anaïs Nin | |
Paperback: 235
Pages
(1972-10-18)
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Offers No Sense of Artistic Evolution 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. ... Read more |
13. The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966 by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 432
Pages
(1977-11-03)
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14. House Of Incest by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 72
Pages
(1958-01-01)
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Background research may be necessary I turned to many other sources for clarification. ANAIS NIN: A BIOGRAPHY by Deirdre Bair was the first outside source. Bair explains that the main supporting character of "Sabina" is none other than June Miller, the notorious second wife of Henry Miller (who appears as "Mona" in Miller's TROPIC OF CANCER). Then I turned to ANAIS NIN READER, which contains introductory essays explaining that the incest referred to in the title is not literal but symbolic. But far, far above the rest, the most helpful was ANAIS NIN: AN INTRODUCTION by Benjamin Franklin V and Duane Schneider; I learned here that HOUSE OF INCEST is not a conventional story by any means. Rather, HOUSE OF INCEST is an exploration of the narrator's subconscious state (very few passages in this book, the two introductory pages for example, reveal the narrator's conscious state). The main theme of HOUSE OF INCEST is the relationship between the narrator and Sabina; but the narrator eventually realizes that her fascination with Sabina is merely a fascination with an aspect of herself, hence the metaphorical incest for which this volume is named. Finally, I understood this book! Finally, I enjoyed it! Now, I love it and think it's brilliant and am glad it was not so easy to get through at first. If labyrinths, puzzles, and psychology interest you, then you may find HOUSE OF INCEST has something to offer. But a word of caution: even though the over-riding theme is not of literal incest, there is one instance where it is: "... there sat Lot with his hand upon his daughter's breast," Anais writes on page 52, "while the city burned behind them." HOUSE OF INCEST was Anais Nin's first work of fiction, published in 1936 - nearly 40 years before the publication of the famous diaries. Deirdre Bair explains that Nin was already publishing aspects of her diary as fiction, though attempting to disguise the more painful details. Bair writes that in this instance Nin was not successful.
A Wonderful Dream
I would give this a 0if I could
Nin's powerful language
PERFECT! |
15. The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 7 (1966-1974) by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(1981-10-14)
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a beautiful book |
16. The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3 (1923-1927) by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 332
Pages
(1985-03-22)
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17. The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 2. (1920-1923) by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 576
Pages
(1983-11-30)
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excellent
a woman searching |
18. In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 169
Pages
(1976-04-01)
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A. Nin
Anais Nin deserves more attention!
For fans of Anais Nin
how did she become famous?
Some books sink into our consciouness |
19. Aphrodisiac: Erotic Drawings by John Boyce for Selected Passages from the Works of Anais Nin | |
Hardcover:
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(1976)
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Enticing |
20. The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1927-1931) by Anais Nin | |
Paperback: 528
Pages
(1986-04-25)
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The Beginning of a Great Advenure
Amazingly different!
Good background, but not for the casual reader
Prelude to the Storm
Modest Beginnings The girl who became Anais Nin, scandalous diarist, was clearly highly articulate, and determined to live a life of Art and Passion, even when her mother was making her do housework as a teenager in their modest rental house in Queens. It provides agentle introduction to her life and times, and a fascinating contrast to searing works such as _Incest_, taken from diary material written some twenty or so years later. One also gets some interesting views of early-twentieth century New York City. The book, taken in the context of Nin's later work, offers evidence that we become what we most want to be. Dreamer, beware! ... Read more |
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