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The Diary of Anaïs Nin is the published version of Anaïs Nin's own private manuscript diary, which she began at age 11 in 1914 during a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers.
Novelistic in detail and full of insight into the creative process, the first volume of Anaïs Nin’s diary sketches a vibrant portrait of the artist as a young woman. Set mostly in France, the work begins in 1931 with the writer having just finished her first book, a biography of her literary idol D. H. Lawrence, and ends two years later on ...
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Nin started her first diary in 1914 at the age of 11. At her death in 1977, the diaries filled around 150 handwritten notebooks. Initially, many of them were edited and published as seven expurgated volumes in the 1960s. Four volumes of her early diaries, written before 1931, were later published in the 1980s. The unexpurgated diaries started to ap...
Nin was unapologetically feminine, revelling in nuance, in texture and emotion. Feelings were not suppressed as female vanity or weakness. They became a resource for self-knowledge, recording the evolution of the self. She found the words to describe inner worlds. As she wrote of one character in the novel Seduction of the Minotaur, In her musings ...
Through Nin’s diaries, I became aware of a universe of other artists and thinkers. They included the experimental film maker Maya Deren; creator of the Theatre of Cruelty Antonin Artaud, who aimed to disrupt the relationship between performers and audience with “organised anarchy”; and the psychoanalyst Otto Rank, one of Freud’s inner circle. When ...
Nov 29, 2010 · 1966. Topics. Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors, American. Publisher. San Diego : Swallow Press/Harcourt Brace. Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive.
The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker's own words, covering the time when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York.
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin Series by Anaïs Nin. 7 primary works • 8 total works. Book 1. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934. by Anaïs Nin. 4.16 · 7,729 Ratings · 456 Reviews · 77 editions. This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 2 1934-1939. by Anaïs Nin.
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The acclaimed author details her bohemian life in 1930s Paris—including her famous affair with Henry Miller—in the classic first volume of her diaries. Born in France to Cuban parents,...
