Ladders to Fire - Softcover

Nin, Anaïs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804001812 ISBN 13: 9780804001816

Publisher: Swallow Press, 1959

Synopsis

After struggling with her own press and printing her own works, Anaïs Nin succeeded in getting Ladders to Fire accepted and published in 1946. This recognition marked a milestone in her life and career. Admitted into the fellowship of American novelists, she maintained the individuality of her literary style. She resisted realistic writing and drew on the experience and intuitions of her diary to forge a novelistic style emphasizing free association, the language of emotion, spontaneity, and improvisation. Ladders to Fire is the first volume of Nin's celebrated series of novels called Cities of the Interior For Anaïs Nin, her writing and her life were not separable, they were both part of the same experience. She claimed that "is it the fiction writer who edited the diary." Anaïs Nin continues to find an audience, whether for her fiction, her diaries, or her own life story, which has enjoyed the attention of biographers and filmmakers. This 1995 reissue of Ladders to Fire has a new cover and foreword. Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) was a unique literary figure of the twentieth century. As a novelist she was distinctly catalytic, and her life-long diary resembles no other in the history of letters. Her books have been translated in a dozen languages.

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Review

"Anais Nin writes sensitively, with psychological training as well as insight.... She has a subcutaneous interest in her characters and Lawrence's sixth sense."
-- "Times Literary Supplement"

Anais Nin writes sensitively, with psychological training as well as insight. She has a subcutaneous interest in her characters and Lawrence s sixth sense.
"Times Literary Supplement""

About the Author

Anais Nin-the celebrated novelst, diarist, and short story writer-was born in France and spent her childhood in various parts of Europe and in New York. Nin returned to New York just before the outbreak of World War II, and she spent the rest of her life living there and in Paris and Los Angeles. Her work is characterized by a interest in the subconscious. Her five novels in the Cities of the Interior series focus on different female types and follow their lives through lovers, art, and analysis. In 1973 Nin received an honorary doctorate from Philadelphia College of Art. She was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1974.

About this edition

• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Publication date: 1959
• ISBN 10: 0804001812
• ISBN 13: 9780804001816
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 180