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Now famed for her extraordinary volumes of erotica, Anais Nin originally made her reputation with a collection of lyrical novels known as the Cities of the Interior series. Published in the aftermath of the Second World War, they were concieved by Nin as part of a 'roman fleuve', or continuous experience. LADDERS TO FIRE in 1946 was the first. This poetic, sensual novel focuses on the lives of a group of women as they undergo a period of emotional and sexual development. They record their experiences as they struggle to understand both themselves and each other. As with most of Nin's novels, LADDERS TO FIRE draws its inspiration from her confessional diaries begun in 1914 at the age of eleven. It dates from the period when Anais Nin moved to New York, a time also explored in the film Henry and June.
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'Real and unmistakable genius.' - Rebecca West 'It is refreshing to find a 1940s novel so firmly situated in the realms of female consciousness and so rooted in a conviction of the validity of female desire.' - SCOTSMAN 'Anais Nin writes sensitively, with psychological training as well as insight... she has a subcutaneous interest in her characters and Lawrence's sixth sense.' - TLS 'Lyrical... her words flow like music.' - GUARDIAN
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After struggling with her own press and printing her own works, Anais 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 Anais Nin, her writing and her life were not separable, they were both part of the same experience. She claimed that "it is the fiction writer who edited the diary".
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- PublisherPeter Owen Publishers
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0720611628
- ISBN 13 9780720611625
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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