Incest: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932-1934)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0156443007 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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An influential artist and thinker, she was the author of several novels, short stories, critical studies, a collection of essays, two volumes of erotica, and nine published volumes of her Diary.. Ana-s Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer
From Publishers Weekly Picking up where Henry and June (1986) left off, this portion of Nin's diary, which was cut from the expurgated editions published in her lifetime, records her steamy love affair with Henry Miller in Paris, but here her intense adoration gives way to disillusionment. Nin's ornate, hothouse prose is much rawer than the chiseled style of the expurgated diaries. Photos. . Her extraordinary, tangled self-analysis is a disarming record of her emotional and creative growth. Her graphic account of their lovemaking and of her incestuous romantic feelings is fairly shocking. Nin sought absolution from her psychiatrist and lover, Otto Rank, who advised her to bed her father, then dump him as punishment for abandoning her when she was 10. She
Five Stars John Williams the best of her first three diaries. A woman in love with life- in all it's beauty and pain A Customer I have read this book a few times. I felt great anguish, and hope for this woman, and all she was going through. As a writer, I can perhaps understand a bit more why she would put herself in this position and maybe as a woman, even though she explains her motivations, desires, and actions pretty good. I do not agree with the. An Amazing Document bookkitten For the love of Are we reviewing the book, or are we critiquing the woman? We're reviewing the book, right? So why so much moralistic brouhaha about the writer's behavior? When Van Gogh's work is auctioned off for a gazillion dollars, is the fact that he was mentally ill of great concern, or is there more interest in his ar
Introduction by Rupert Pole; Index; photographs.. “It is Nin’s posthumously published uncensored diaries that will make her immortal” (Booklist). The continuation of the story begun in Henry and June, exposing the shattering psychological drama that drove Nin to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression