Incest: From a Journal of Love -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1932-1934): From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932-1934) (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Nin, Anais; Nin, Anaeis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156443007 ISBN 13: 9780156443005

Publisher: Harvest Books, 1993

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

Passionate, sexual and shocking --Cosmopolitan

Rarely does the literature of the 20th century reflect one of the great and transcending experiences: the emancipation of women. Simon de Beauvoir and Mary McCarthy dealt with the issue ... Anais Nin eclipses both of them. --Los Angeles Times

A remarkable psychological and literary talent. --Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Ana-s Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she was the author of several novels, short stories, critical studies, a collection of essays, two volumes of erotica, and nine published volumes of her Diary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0156443007
• ISBN 13: 9780156443005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 442