Anaïs Nin
Writer and diarist, born in Paris to a Catalan father and a Danish mother, Anaïs Nin spent many of her early years with Cuban relatives. Later a naturalized American citizen, she lived and worked in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Author of avant-garde novels in the French surrealistic style and collections of erotica, she is best known for her life and times in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volumes I-VII (1966-1980). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%...
A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Anaïs Nin
The intimacy between Nin and Miller, first disclosed in Henry and June, is documented further in this impassioned exchange of letters between the two controversial writers. Edited and with an Introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.
Artists and Models
Anaïs Nin
Both stories capture a moment of sexual awakening, and reveal the subtle or explicit means by which men and women are aroused. Lust, obsession, fantasy and desire emerge as part of the human condition, as pure or as complex as any other of its aspects. Previously published in The Delta of Venus (1978) and Little birds (1979) respectively.
- Artists and Models
- A Model
A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
Anaïs Nin
Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artistic "distillations" of her secret diaries. A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression, on the one hand, and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, on the other, echoed Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation. Written when Nin's own life was taut with conflicting loyalties, her protagonist Sabina repeatedly asks herself, can one indulge in one's sensual restlessness, the fantasies, the relentless need for adventure without devastating consequences?
Children of the Albatross (Cities of the Interior #2)
Anaïs Nin
Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: "The Sealed Room" focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; "The Caf�" brings together a cast of characters already familiar to Nin's readers, but it is their meeting place that is the focal point of the story.
As always, in Children of the Albatross, Nin's writing is inseparable from her life. From Djuna's story, told in "The Sealed Room" through hints and allusions, hazy in their details and chronology, the most important event to emerge is her father's desertion (like Nin's) when she was sixteen. By rejecting realistic writing for the experience and intuitions she drew from her diary, Nin was able to forge a novelistic style emphasizing free association, spontaneity, and improvisation, a technique that finds its parallel in the jazz music performed at the caf� where Nin's characters meet.
Cities of the Interior
Anaïs Nin
Ladders to Fire , Children of the Albatross , The Four-Chambered Heart , A Spy in the House of Love , Seduction of the Minotaur . Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin began in 1946 to appear in quiet succession. Though published separately over the next fifteen years, the five were conceived as a continuous experience—a continuous novel like Proust’s, real and flowing as a river. The full impact of Anaïs Nin’s genius is only to be found through reading the novels in context and in succession. They form a rich, luminous tapestry whose overall theme Nin has called “woman at war with herself.” Characters, symbols appear and now one, now another unfolding, gradually revealing, changing, struggling, growing, and Nin had forged an evocative language all her own for the telling. “The diary taught me that there were no neat ends to novels, no neat denouement, no neat synthesis,” she explains. “So I began an endless novel, a novel in which the climaxes consisted of discoveries in awareness, each step in awareness becoming a stage in the growth like the layers in trees.” Cities of the Interior fulfills a long–time desire on the part of readers, publisher, and Anaïs Nin herself to reunite the five novels in a single volume.
Collages
Anaïs Nin
Collages explores a world of fantasy and dreams through an eccentric young painter. A radical work in its time (1964), Anais Nin dispensed with normal structural convention and allowed her characters to wander freely in space and time in an attempt to describe life with the disconnected clarity of a dream in which hip and freakish lives intersect or merge.
Perhaps reflecting a developing contemporary awareness of abstract art, Collages is a series of impressions rather than a coherent whole, a shifting notebook indelibly inscribed with Nin's humour, invention and unrivalled gift for sensuous description.
"A handful of perfectly told fables" -- Times Literary Supplement
Delta de Venus
Anaïs Nin
Escritos a principios de la década de 1940 por encargo de un excéntrico coleccionista de libros que insistía en pedir «menos poesía» y descripciones más explícitas en las escenas sexuales, los relatos de "Delta de Venus" no vieron la luz hasta los años 1970. Ambientados en torno al París de la época e hilados por la aparición recurrente de personajes comunes de distinta importancia según cada cuento, ofrecen una visión libre de las relaciones humanas, en la que el erotismo y el ansia de placer no excluyen ni la belleza ni el sentimiento, ni la amistad ni la búsqueda de la autenticidad.
Delta lui Venus
Anaïs Nin
Cititorul care paseste in lumea imbibata de erotism a lui Anais Nin trebuie sa lase prejudecatile la intrare: autoarea incearca sa deschida acea cutie a Pandorei care este sexualitatea feminina, infatisand-o sub masti felurite, insa fara tuse clinice sau pudibonderii suspecte. Prostituate, voyeuri, frigide, lesbiene, hermafroditi, artisti, femei indragostite, barbati de o sexualitate uluitoare -- universul lui Anais Nin functioneaza dupa legea instinctului ridicat la rang de arta.
Delta of Venus
Anaïs Nin
Fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977 - though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector.
In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.
Part of the Quality Paperback Book Club series with limited-edition art cover. Cover art painted by Monica Elias.
Delta of Venus: Erotica
Anaïs Nin
Anais Nin's entertaining, poetic, erotic stories range from lyrical love to high comedy and deal with such subjects as the exotic pleasures of Paris in the 1930s and a woman's awakening to her sexual nature
Diario de infancia (1914-1918)
Anaïs Nin
Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona. 22 cm. 252 p., [4] p. de lám. il. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Nin, Anaïs 1903-1977. Traducción de Nuria Lago Jaraiz. Plaza & Janés literaria. Traducción Journal d'enfance (1914-1918) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8401381053
Diario I (1931-1934)
Anaïs Nin
Este es uno de los testimonios más extraordinarios de la literatura universal. Un diario escrito a lo lardo de toda una vida, más de treinta y cinco mil páginas, que por primera vez nos descubre sin tabúes a la mujer moderna, a la Anaïs Nin que se asoma sin vértigo al siglo XX. Testimonio de una mujer apasionada, auténtica, explosiva el "Diario" es un impresionante escenario íntimo en el que se exhibe desnuda, feliz, sin complejos, amando al mismo tiempo a Henry y a June. «June es mi aventura y mi pasión, pero Henry es mi amor». Esa es la Anaïs Nin que recurre a las emociones para embellecer la vida, la que sabe rodearse de talento y se entrega al amor con impetuosa pasión.
En este primer volumen de su Diario, Anaïs, tras publicar si primer libro sobre D.H Lawrence, revive el París que comparte con Henry Miller y su mujer, June Mansfield, hasta 1934, año en que se dirige a Nueva York. Pura literatura donde, más allá de las exquisitas experiencias sexuales, florece el mundo artístico del gran París y el de una mujer ante el frenesí intelectual, emocional y físico capaz de conmoverla como ninguna otra cosa lo había hecho.
Diario II: 1934-1939
Anaïs Nin
Diario di Anaïs Nin, reso pubblico nel 1966, fu per decenni oggetto di pettegolezzi e congetture. Solo qualche amico ne aveva potuto leggere qualche pagina; Henry Miller diceva che questo diario avrebbe trovato posto accanto ai grandi capitoli dell’autobiografismo occidentale: Sant’Agostino, Rousseau, Proust... Il Diario è il libro di Anaïs Nin. È la sua vita ·creata, il filtro attraverso il quale setaccia la sua esperienza in un disegno significativo. È anche il suo guscio e il suo confessionale: “Ho un ritmo naturale nel diario,” scrisse più di trent’anni fa, “quello che produco fuori di esso è una distillazione, è il mito, il poema.”Questo secondo volume del diario di Anaïs Nin comincia con l’arrivo a New York, dove Otto Rank l’ha chiamata per aiutarlo nel suo lavoro di psicoanalista. E il successo, con Rank e con i pazienti; è la vita varia, pulsante, brutale della città nuova; è la riconferma della propria vocazione di scrittrice. Ritorno in Francia; nuove amicizie, nuovi incontri; e dubbi e messe a fuoco sempre più precise delle proprie scelte umane e artistiche. Ma lo scoppio della guerra civile spagnola e poi della seconda guerra mondiale mette fine a tutto un modo di vivere costruito con fatica e amore. Il volume si chiude con una seconda partenza per New York, non più all’insegna dell’avventura e della scoperta, ma in fuga, con smarrimento.
Diarios amorosos: Incesto (1932-1934) / Fuego (1934-1937)
Anaïs Nin
Rare book
Eros Unbound
Anaïs Nin
A naive model slowly discovering her sexuality; an erotic moonlight encounter on a beach; a man teaching the art of passion in a gypsy caravan; and a woman in love with a scent from Fez - Anais Nin's stories explore the nature of sex and the awakening of desire.
Fire: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937
Anaïs Nin
In this “erotically charged”(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-”that brilliant giant toy” -then back to Paris and Henry, and eventually into the arms of a passionate new lover.
Henry and June
Anaïs Nin
Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June Miller's return to Paris dominates her thoughts.
Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
Anaïs Nin
Taken from the original, uncensored journals of Anaïs Nin, Henry and June spans a single year in Nin's life when she discovers love and torment in one insatiable couple. From late 1931 to the end of 1932, Nin falls in love with Henry Miller's writing and his wife June's striking beauty. When June leaves Paris for New York, Henry and Anaïs begin a fiery affair that liberates her sexually and morally, but also undermines her marriage and eventually leads her into psychoanalysis. As she grapples with her own conscience, a single question dominates her thoughts: What will happen when June returns to Paris? An intimate account of one woman's sexual awakening, Henry and June exposes the pain and pleasure felt by a single person trapped between two loves.
Henry și June. Din JURNALUL DRAGOSTEI necenzurat
Anaïs Nin
Anais Nin iubeste pasional, dincolo de conventii si pudori mostenite. Il iubeste pe Henry Miller pentru geniul si senzualitatea lui. Pe June Miller pentru frumusete si mister. Pe Hugo, sotul ei, pentru tandretea cu care o protejeaza. Pe Eduardo, varul de care a fost indragostita in copilarie, pentru farmecul lui de efeb. In jurnal, fantasmele se intalnesc cu luciditatea, iar rezultatul este o viziune unica asupra erotismului si fidelitatii.
House of Incest
Anaïs Nin
Anais Nin’s famous prose poem and first fictional book, House of Incest, appeared in 1936, published in a limited edition by Siana (Anais spelled backwards) Editions in Paris. Often compared to the style of the French Surrealists, it ranks among the most unique representations of English prose in the 20th century, free-flowing, evoking dreamlike images that weave in and around the passages. Among the hallucinatory words, heavily symbolic images come into the fabled house in Louveciennes, France; the erotic liaison with June Miller; the god-like mentor, D.H. Lawrence; and impossible incestuous love—all fragments of a nebulous being slowly coalescing into an elevated state of existence.
Il delta di Venere
Anaïs Nin
Un collezionista di libri nel 1940 offrì a Henry Miller cento dollari per scrivere racconti erotici. Henry accettò entusiasta, ma ben presto si stancò e passò l'incarico all'amica Anais che dovette attenersi a un solo monito: "Si concentri sul sesso. Lasci perdere la poesia." Trascorse così interi giorni in biblioteca a studiare il Kama Sutra e ad ascoltare le avventure più spinte degli amici, e come lei stessa ricorda, tutte le mattine, dopo colazione, si sedeva a scrivere la sua dose di pornografia. Bizzarri, esagerati, ironici, in questi racconti erotici Anais Nin sonda tutti i misteri della sensualità femminile.
Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
Anaïs Nin
Few writings explore a woman's love life in such detail, with such subtlety, insight, and pain, as does Anais Nin's original, uncensored diary. It is a life record that deals openly with the physical aspects of relationships and unsparingly with the full spectrum of psychological ramifications. Here was a woman who sought the freedom to act out her sexual and emotional desires with the same guiltless, "amoral" abandon that men have always claimed for themselves. When Nin began publishing sections of her diary in 1966, this aspect of her life was excised, though clearly there was more than could be told at the time concerning her relationships with Henry Miller and his wife, June, with the writer and actor Antonin Artaud, with her analysts Rene Allendy and Otto Rank, and - most important - with her father. Here now is the previously missing portion of Nin's life in the crucial years from 1932 to 1934, the shattering psychological drama that drove her to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. In its raw exposure of a woman's struggle to come to terms with herself, to find salvation in the very act of writing, Incest unveils an Anais Nin without masks and secrets, yet in the end still mysterious, perhaps inexplicable.
Incesto (Italian Edition)
Anaïs Nin
Ideale integrazione della vicenda narrata in Henry & Jane, ecco il diario inedito e senza censure relativo al periodo 1932-34, gli anni cruciali in cui la scrittrice conobbe Henry Miller e in cui maturò — nel quadro di un devastante dramma psicologico — la decisione di perseguire la trasgressione definitiva. La Nin ha saputo indagare la propria vita interiore, i propri dolori, i propri desideri con una sincerità e una sottigliezza ineguagliabili. In queste pagine vi è il racconto di una donna che voleva essere libera di vivere i suoi desideri sessuali ed emozionali con lo stesso abbandono "amorale" che gli uomini hanno sempre rivendicato come loro diritto esclusivo. Ma incesto è anche la testimonianza vivissima dell'intelligenza e della sensualità di una donna che ha portato all'estremo l'analisi delle sue relazioni e dei suoi affetti. Il rapporto che più viene sviscerato è quello - primitivo — con il padre, celebre pianista e dongiovanni; ma fondamentali per comprendere fino in fondo la personalità della scrittrice sono anche i riferimenti crudi e diretti a Miller.
In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
Anaïs Nin
Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.
In Favour of the Sensitive Man
Anaïs Nin
Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.
Journal of a Wife: The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1923-27 (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Anaïs Nin
A bridge between the early life of Nin and the first volume of her Diary. In pages more candid than in the preceding diaries, Nin tells how she exorcised the obsession that threatened her marriage and nearly drove her to suicide. Editor's Note by Rupert Pole; Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell; Index; photographs.
La casa dell'incesto (Italian Edition)
Anaïs Nin
“Questo libro è scritto senza testimoni, un edificio senza dimensioni, una città appesa al cielo”La casa dell’incesto è la storia della dolorosa situazione di una donna divisa, incapace di trovare un collegamento tra il corpo e la propria vita emotiva. “Ho scritto le prime due pagine del mio nuovo libro in uno stile surrealista,” annota nel suo diario la Nin nell’aprile del 1932. E in effetti si tratta di un testo audacemente sperimentale, sospeso tra il romanzo e la prosa lirica, che rappresenta il felice punto d’incontro tra i due momenti fondamentali dell’ispirazione di Anaïs Nin: da una parte, la ricerca di una totale e potente naturalezza nell’esprimere la vita e l’emozione dei sensi; dall’altra, il proposito di “procedere dal sogno per entrare nel dato sensibile”, cioè di immergere l’esperienza onirica nel flusso della vita quotidiana, accostandosi alle ricerche del gruppo surrealista. Nasce così quello che è, forse, il libro letterariamente più elaborato e intenso della Nin: un racconto allucinato, “stratosferico”, caratterizzato da una prosa sontuosa e musicale, da una ragnatela sottile ma fortissima di immagini e di suoni, “la mia stagione all’inferno”, come ebbe a definirlo l’autrice stessa. Un poema in prosa unico nel suo genere. Un montaggio/travestimento “surrealista”: il mondo interiore e onirico di una donna.
Ladders to Fire (Cities of the Interior #1)
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happiness and wholeness. The author’s own experiences, as recorded in her famous diaries, supplied the raw material for her fiction. It was her intuitive, experimental, and always original style that transformed one into the other. Nin herself memorably claimed that “it was the fiction writer who edited the diary.” Ladders to Fire explores the erotic attachments of four young women. Nin described it as a "woman's struggle to understand her own nature." It began a five-volume "continuous novel," Cities of the Interior, which includes Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), and Solar Barque (1959).Set in the pre-war, expatriate Paris of Henry Miller, this novel — which shocked Nin’s contemporaries — draws its inspiration from her confessional diaries. Although Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artistic “distillations” of her secret diaries. This 1995 reissue of of the 1946 novel Ladders to Fire has a new cover and foreword. This Swallow Press reissue includes a new introduction by Nin scholar Benjamin Franklin V, as well as Gunther Stuhlmann’s classic foreword to the 1995 edition.
La voce
Anaïs Nin
Nelle sedici storie di questo volume, che comprende le raccolte Campana di vetro e Inverno artificiale, è presente un continuo slittamento tra realtà e sogno, in una prosa modellata sull’invenzione e soprattutto filtrata attraverso la lente, deformante e rivelatrice, della sensibilità poetica della Nin. Racconti senza luogo e senza data, dove l’istantaneo si fonde nel ricordo, il passato nel presente, il fantasma nel visibile, uniti da un unico tema: la donna e il suo riflesso, il viaggio interiore intrecciato al vissuto. Nessun femminismo di maniera, preconcetto o barricadiero, sembra distogliere Anaïs Nin dalla dimensione creatrice pura, originale, in cui valori letterari e valori umani confluiscono nel valore assoluto di una testimonianza inconfondibile, creando un’algebra emotiva che suscita un continuo di espansioni, improvvisazioni e associazioni molteplici e avvincenti.
L'Intemporalité perdue et autres nouvelles
Anaïs Nin
Comment raconter le désir – désir sexuel, appétit pour la vie, l'art... – d'une femme mariée, apprentie écrivaine au début du siècle dernier ? C'est à ce projet qu'Anaïs Nin semble s'atteler dans ces seize nouvelles inédites, écrites pour la plupart entre 1929 et 1931. On y croise une jeune femme qui, parée comme pour un grand voyage, largue les amarres d'un bateau attaché à un arbre au fond d'un jardin, une petite fille abandonnant ses poupées pour se consacrer à l'étude du goût de ses larmes, et bien d'autres personnages hantés par la dualité entre l'être et le paraître.
Ce recueil de nouvelles dévoile, grâce à la très belle traduction d'Agnès Desarthe, la genèse de l'oeuvre d'une des auteures les plus modernes et admirées du XXe siècle.
Little Birds
Anaïs Nin
Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy, and a host of others who yearn for and dive into the turbulent depths of romantic experience.
Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1939-1947)
Anaïs Nin
Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anaïs Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be “the One,” the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection. In the middle looms a period Nin describes as “hell,” during which she experiences a kind of erotic madness, a delirium that fuels her search for love. As a child suffering abandonment by her father, Anaïs wrote, “Close your eyes to the ugly things,” and, against a horrifying backdrop of war and death, Nin combats the world’s darkness with her own search for light.Mirages collects, for the first time, the story that was cut from all of Nin’s other published diaries, particularly volumes 3 and 4 of The Diary of Anaïs Nin, which cover the same time period. It is the long-awaited successor to the previous unexpurgated diaries Henry and June, Incest, Fire, and Nearer the Moon. Mirages answers the questions Nin readers have been asking for decades: What led to the demise of Nin’s love affair with Henry Miller? Just how troubled was her marriage to Hugh Guiler? What is the story behind Nin’s “children,” the effeminate young men she seemed to collect at will? Mirages is a deeply personal story of heartbreak, despair, desperation, carnage, and deep mourning, but it is also one of courage, persistence, evolution, and redemption that reaches beyond the personal to the universal.
Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939
Anaïs Nin
Anais Nin's diary was her "ultimate confidante," and to it she revealed her private self, her doubts and weaknesses, and the uncensored details about her physical relationships. This discipline of daily writing also helped Nin develop the skills to write her edited diaries and best-selling volumes of erotica. The fourth volume of "A Journal of Love," Nearer the Moon covers the years 1937 through 1939 and continues the story begun in Fire of Nin's "dismemberment by love." She remains torn between three men: Henry Miller, whose detached self-immersion and artistic "impersonality" both attract and repel her; Gonzalo More, a sensitive and attentive but jealous lover who drives her to distraction; and Hugh Guiler, her faithful husband, who provides a calm center for Nin. In addition, a wide circle of family, friends, and admirers makes demands on Nin's time and emotional energy. She is constantly busy helping people - finding apartments and rent money, taking trips to the doctor, encouraging artistic pursuits. And yet, she cannot abandon her writing - the structured world of the writer is her refuge.
Pequenos pássaros
Anaïs Nin
Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy, and a host of others who yearn for and dive into the turbulent depths of romantic experience.
Portrait in Three Dimensions
Anaïs Nin
- In Portrait in Three Dimensions, Nin with penetrating vision analyzes and observes Druks in the process of creating. She clearly indicates how the artist draws from her environment-that is, reality-and how this transmutation takes place. In part one, "The Woman," Nin documents reality in the Diaries. Part two, "The Alchemy," is the fulcrum of Portrait in Three Dimensions and the artist's laboratory, where life and art fuse and the physical incarnation of the painter's vision manifests. Part three, "The Myth," is a story portrait of Renate Druks from Collages, based on the documented reality of the Diaries. Portrait in Three Dimensions is a brilliant study of the creative process and an important contribution to our understanding of the development and techniques of Romantic Realism.
Scale di fuoco (Cities of Interior, #1)
Anaïs Nin
Nella pittoresca giungla di artisti della Montparnasse anni Trenta, Lillian e Jay si incontrano e intessono una tormentata storia d’amore. Jay, pittore versatile e irriverente, rappresenta per Lillian la liberazione dai pregiudizi e dalle convenzioni borghesi di cui è prigioniera, ma la sua presa di coscienza assomiglia più a un'educazione artistica che sentimentale. Le innumerevoli avventure erotiche in cui Jay - ispirato allo scrittore Henry Miller - si perde, l'entrata in scena dell'enigmatica ballerina Djuna, della fascinosa Helen e dell'incantevole Sabina, costringono Lillian a confrontarsi con l'immagine riflessa di altre donne e a scoprire dentro di sé forme d’amore fino a quel momento inespresse. In un caleidoscopico alternarsi di emozioni, i personaggi e le situazioni si scompongono e si ricompongono creando ogni volta nuovi scenari, come nell'ultima sfida dove il Giocatore di Scacchi tenta di trasformare un party troppo convenzionale in un intreccio magico e surreale di seduzioni, incontri e confessioni. Inedito in Italia fino al 1998, Scale di fuoco rappresenta uno dei vertici narrativi dell’opera di Anais Nin.
Seduction of the Minotaur
Anaïs Nin
“Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian’s recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed…. With her first swallow of air she inhaled a drug of forgetfulness well known to adventurers.”Seduction of the Minotaur is the fifth and final volume of Anaïs Nin’s continuous novel known as Cities of the Interior. First published by Swallow Press in 1961, the story follows the travels of the protagonist Lillian through the tropics to a Mexican city loosely based on Acapulco, which Nin herself visited in 1947 and described in the fifth volume of her Diary. As Lillian seeks the warmth and sensuality of this lush and intriguing city, she travels inward as well, learning that to free herself she must free the “monster” that has been confined in a labyrinth of her subconscious. This new Swallow Press edition includes an introduction by Anita Jarczok, author of Inventing Anaïs Nin: Celebrity Authorship and the Creation of an Icon. Swallow Press publishes all five volumes that make up Cities of the Interior: Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, and Seduction of the Minotaur.
Stella
Anaïs Nin
Stella, a little-known work written by Anais Nin in 1945, is an examination of self-discovery and self-worth, a theme central to much of her fiction. The title character is loosely based on actress Luise Rainer, with whom Nin had a contentious friendship. Stella is faced with the contrast between her love affair with a public that adores her for her film roles, and her personal inability to find human love. The men in Stella’s life include an ex-husband, a Don Juan lover, and a father who is not unlike Nin’s own.
It is ironic that Stella is offered a role in The Orphan, since the novella itself is somewhat of a motherless child. Nin experimented placing it in her 1946 Dutton edition of Ladders to Fire, and eventually in Swallow’s 1961 edition of Winter of Artifice, where remains today, as well as in Sky Blue Press’s anthology The Portable Anais Nin. Nin herself expressed the difficulty of finding Stella a home, so it only makes sense to offer it as a single title for the first time.
According to critic Oliver Evans, who compares Stella to D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover, says the novella “remains one of [Nin’s] most thoroughly realized performances. She has taken the timeworn theme of the possessive female and examined it through her microscopic lens from new and interesting angles.”
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Anaïs Nin
This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939
Anaïs Nin
Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist in the modern world. "Sensitive and frank...[Nin's] diary is a dialogue between flesh and spirit" (Newsweek). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944
Anaïs Nin
This candid volume from the renowned diarist covers her years of struggle, and eventual triumph, as an author in America during World War II.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
Anaïs Nin
The author's experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establishment, and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. "[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of this century" (New York Times Book Review). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955
Anaïs Nin
The author's experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris, her psychoanalysis, and her experiment with LSD. "Through her own struggling and dazzling courage [Nin has] shown women groping with and growing with the world" (Minneapolis Tribune). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
Anaïs Nin
Nin continues her debate on 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. "[Nin] looks at life, love, and art with a blend of gentility and acuity that is rare in contemporary writing" (John Barkham Reviews). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
Anaïs Nin
The final volume ends as the author wished-not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous, reflective moment on a trip to Bali. "One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters" (Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index; photographs.
The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
Anaïs Nin
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, Anais Nin began keeping a diary at the age of eleven and continued the practice for the rest of her life. Confessional, scandalous, and thoroughly absorbing, her diaries became one of the most celebrated literary projects of the twentieth century. Writing candidly of her marriages and affairs—including those with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller—Nin presents a passionate and detailed record of a modern woman’s journey of self-discovery.
Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann, this celebrated first volume begins in the winter of 1931 and ends in the fall of 1934. It covers an auspicious time in Nin’s life, from when she is about to publish her first book to her decision to leave Paris for New York.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 2 1934-1939
Anaïs Nin
Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist in the modern world. "Sensitive and frank...[Nin's] diary is a dialogue between flesh and spirit" (Newsweek). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.
The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
Anaïs Nin
The Four-Chambered Heart , Anaïs Nin’s 1950 novel, recounts the real-life affair she conducted with café guitarist Gonzalo Moré in 1936. Nin and Moré rented a house-boat on the Seine, and under the pervading influence of the boat’s watchman and Moré’s wife Helba, developed a relationship. Moré; named the boat Nanankepichu , meaning "not really a home."
In the novel, which Nin drew from her experiences on the boat, the characters are clearly based. Djuna is an embodiment of Nin herself. A young dancer in search of fulfillment, she encapsulates all that the author was striving for at that time. The character of Djuna features in other novels, perhaps weaving a directly autobiographical thread into Nin’s fiction. The gypsy musician, Rango, is therefore Moré, and his invalid wife is Zora. The old watchman is present as a force which, along with Zora, works against the lovers in their quest for happiness.
Nin’s main concern is the "outside," and how it affects the "interior." Water is a cleverly used theme. “I have no great fear of depths,” says Djuna, “and a great fear of shallow living.” Rango and Djuna’s relationship is, in effect, their effort to remain afloat. Often, Nin employs a stream of consciousness, especially in her flowing analyses of love, life and music, which continues the water image.
Anaïs Nin’s writing is typically exquisite in its detail and texture. She describes its "black lacquered cobblestones" and "silver filigree trees." The "humid scarfs of fog" on the river, and "the sharp incense of roasted chestnuts" reveal their source through their Nin’s personal experience.
The Novel of the Future
Anaïs Nin
In The Novel of the Future , Anaïs Nin explores the act of creation—in literature, film, art, and dance—to arrive at a new synthesis for the young artist struggling against the sterility, formlessness, and spiritual bankruptcy afflicting much of modern fiction. Identifying those trends which she finds most destructive in modern fiction (reportage, the substitution of violence for emotion, and the growing cults of ugliness, toughness, and caricature), Nin offers, instead, an argument for and synthesis of the poetic novel.
Drawing upon such related arts as filmmaking, painting, and dance, Nin discusses her own efforts in this genre as well as the development of such writers as D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Marguerite Young, and Djuna Barnes. In chapters devoted to the pursuit of the hidden self, the genesis of fiction, and the relationship between the diary and fiction, she addresses the materials, techniques, and nourishment of the arts, and the functions of art itself.
The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)
Anaïs Nin
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?'
Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of erotic fiction.
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Under a Glass Bell
Anaïs Nin
Under a Glass Bell is one of Nin's finest collections of stories. First published in 1944, it attracted the attention of Edmond Wilson, who reviewed the collection in The New Yorker. It was in these stories that Nin's artistic and emotional vision took shape. Although Under a Glass Bell is now considered one of Anaïs Nin’s finest collections of stories, it was initially deemed unpublishable. Refusing to give up on her vision, in 1944 Nin founded her own press and brought out the first edition, illustrated with striking black-and-white engravings by her husband, Hugh Guiler. Shortly thereafter, it caught the attention of literary critic Edmund Wilson, who reviewed the collection in the New Yorker. The first printing sold out in three weeks.
Waste of Timelessness and Other Early Stories
Anaïs Nin
These stories precede all of Nin’s published work to date. In them are many sources of the more mature work that collectors and growing writers can appreciate. Written when Anaïs Nin was in her twenties and living in Louveciennes, France, these stories contain many elements that will delight her details remembered from childhood, of life in Paris, the cafés, theatres; characters including dancers, artists, writers, women who devote themselves to their work and visions as well as romance, strangers met in the night; themes such as the scruples of lovers, the search for brilliant, imaginative living; the writer’s experimentation with exotic words like “sybaritic” and “violaceous”. In the craft of these stories readers are treated to a deft sense of humor, ironic wit, much conversation as well as ecstatic prose, and surprise endings. Throughout all, the Nin personality shines, a wonderful mixture of feeling and rationality, of vulnerability and strength.
Winter of Artifice
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Three
* Stella
* Winter of Artifice
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* The Voice
"A handful of perfectly fold fables, and prose which is so daringly elaborate, so accurately timed...using words as magnificently colorful, evocative and imagist as any plastic combination on canvas but as mysteriously idiosyncratic as any abstract." - Times Literary Supplement
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