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The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest.
Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally. While referring to her relationships with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller, as well as a new lover, the Peruvian Gonzalo Moré, she also reveals that her most passionate and enduring affair...
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Beginning with the author's arrival in New York, this diary recounts Anaïs Nin's work as a psychoanalyst, and is filled with the stories of her analytical patients-as well as her musings over the challenges facing the artist in the modern world. The diary of this remarkably daring and candid woman provides a deeply intimate look inside her mind, as well as a fascinating chapter in her tumultuous life in the latter years of the 1930s.
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The diarist's account of her life in the early 1920s explores 'the conflict she felt between artistic longings and her pre-ordained female fate' (The Detroit News). Continuing the journey of self-education and self-discovery she began in Linotte, Anaïs Nin discloses a part of her life that had previously remained private. She discusses the period in which she met Hugo Guiler, the young man who later became her husband, and made the wrenching transition...
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The renowned diarist continues her record of her personal, professional, and artistic life, recounting her experiences in Greenwich Village for several years in the late 1940s, where she defends young writers against the Establishment-and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico.
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Anaïs Nin continues "one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters" with this volume covering more than a decade of her midcentury life (Los Angeles Times). She debates the use of drugs versus the artist's imagination; portrays many famous people in the arts; and recounts her visits to Sweden, the Brussels World's Fair, Paris, and Venice.
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The seventh and final volume of the author's 'remarkable' diary is filled with the reflections of an older woman as she journeys through the world (Los Angeles Times). 'One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters' ends as the author wished: not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous moment on a trip to Bali (Los Angeles Times). As she ages, Anaïs Nin reflects on how the deeply personal and introspective nature of her writings...
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Nin's years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. "Transcending mere self-revelation... the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Proust...dream and fact are balanced and...in their joining lie the elements of masterpiece...
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The trailblazing memoirist and author of Henry & June recounts her relationships with Henry Miller and others-including her own father. Writing with uncensored white heat, Anaïs Nin's diaries were like a broad-minded confidante with whom she shared the liberating psychosexual dramas of her life. In this continuation of her notorious Henry & June, she recounts a particularly turbulent period between 1932 and 1934, and the men who dominated it: her...
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This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers-Anaïs Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer-paints a portrait of more than two decades in their complex relationship as it moves through periods of passion, friendship, estrangement, and reconciliation.
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