In 1913, Joaquín Nin abandoned his family, including his ten-year-old daughter, Anaïs. Twenty years later, Anaïs and Joaquín reunited and began an illicit sexual affair.
In 1913, Joaquín Nin abandoned his family, including his ten-year-old daughter, Anaïs. Twenty years later, Anaïs and Joaquín reunited and began an illicit sexual affair.
Das faszinierende Psychogramm eines Ehelebens.
Anais Nin ist frisch verheiratet mit Hugh Guiler und versucht, die neuen Anforderungen als Ehefrau pefekt zu erfüllen. Sie möchte ihrem Ideal der reinen, auf ewig verbindenden Liebe gerecht werden. Doch sie ist auch getrieben vom Drang zu schreiben, von der Begeisterung für das Leben und findet sich in einer ständigen Auseinandersetzung mit sich selbst. "Es ist das Fieber des Lebens, der verzehre...
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" (Washington Post). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann, Index.
Disquieting yet magnetic, Incest continues the story begun in the best-selling Henry and June to reveal a woman's struggle to come to terms with herself for the "ultimate transgression"--and to find salvation in the very act of writing. 15 duotone photographs.
In the winter of 1951-52, Anais Nin was a writer in despair. More than a dozen publishing houses had rejected her new novel, A Spy in the House of Love, and Nin became desperate for literary acceptance. Encouragement came from an unexpected source. Felix Pollak, an Austrian emigre and Rare Book Librarian at Northwestern University, had been entrusted with the task of acquiring some of Nin's manuscripts for the library. A longtime admirer of he...
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.
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.
A continuation of the journey of self-education and self-discovery begun by Anais Nin in the previous volume of her early diary. Central here is the growing conflict between her role as woman and her determination to be a writer. Editor's Note by Rupert Pole, Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Index, photographs.
