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Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
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"Anais Nin began writing a detailed, private diary as a child. As
an adult, she continued the diary; she also began to draw upon it for her
fiction. Diary, stories, and novels existed side by side. The relationship
between them was legendary, but not really known. The few privileged readers
of the diaries in manuscript had kept us aware of them and had proclaimed,
in advance, their importance.-- Philip K. Jason
Anais Nin Reader edited by Philip K. Jason 1973, Swallow Press Chicago although this book is now out of print, the author has a new critically acclaimed book The Critical Response to Anais Nin available through the Greenwood Press. |
Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934 Vol. 1
Volume I covers Anais Nin’s life in Paris during the early 1930’s.
It opens at the time Nin was about to make her literary debut with a brief
passionate study of D.H. Lawrence. She was then living in an ancient, shuttered
house in the sleepy village of Louveciennes, on the outskirts of Paris
It provides full length portraits of the then unknown Henry Miller, of
the extraordinary surrealist poet and man of the theater Antonin Artaud,
and the famous psychiatrist Dr, Otto Rank. It offers a fascinating record
of Nin’s struggles to discover her own self, to come to grips with her
past and her future.
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive
me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only
one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings
is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest
is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.--- June, 1933
Paperback/1969
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Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1939 Vol. 2
Volume II of this long-awaited work begins where Volume 1 left off
and covers the pre-World War II years. It’s "heros’s" one might say, are
the Spanish Civil War, psychoanalysis, and the houseboat on the Seine in
which Anais Nin lived during a part of this period. But there are also
encounters and friendships with many interesting and celebrated people.
Henry Miller and Otto Rank reappear, and among those introduced are Lawrence
Currell, Theodore Dreiser, Waldo Frank, Pablo Neruda and Rebecca West.
The diary was once a disease. I do
not take it up now for the same reasons. Before it was because I was lonely,
or because I did not know how to communicate with others. I needed the
communion. Now it is to write, not for solace but for the pleasure of describing
others, out of abundance.
Paperback/1986
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Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1944 Vol. 3
This third volumne chronicles Nin's return to the US from Europe, immediately
after the outbreak of World War II. Set in New York, In Provincetown and
Virginia, these pages bring to life the artistic mileu of this "New World".
Many of the portraits of her talented friends continue to appear; Frances
Steloff,Henry Miller, Luise Rainer,Kenneth Patchen, Robert Duncan, Edgar
Varese, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Wright and Canada Lee.The
pages also continue to detail her moments of joy as well as the onerous
obstacles she encountered in her effort to establish herself as a writer.
The continuing themes of friendship and frustration continue and often
seem slightly comical, "The telephone bill unpaid. The net of economic
difficulties closing in on me. Everyone around me irresponsible, unconscious
of the shipwreck. I did thirty pages of erotica." In this period she
printed Under A Glass Bell . "an exquisite piece of workmanship. Gonzalo
has a gift for book designing" wrote Anais.
Volume Three is drawn from the original volumes 60 to 67 of the Diary
, and links directly with the two previously published volumes, covering
the years 1931-34 and 1934-39. " A laborious mosaic"
Paperback/1983
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Diary of Anais Nin, 1944-1947 Vol. 4
Paperback/1983
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Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955 Vol. 5
Paperback/1975
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Diary of Anais Nin, 1955-1966 Vol. 6
Paperback/1977
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Diary of Anais Nin,1966-1974 Vol. 7
Paperback/1981
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The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1920-1923 Vol. 2
Paperback/1983
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The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1923-1927 Vol. 3
Paperback/1985
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The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1927-1931 Vol. 4
/Paperback/1986
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Fire: From 'A Journal of Love': The Unexpurgated Diary
Of Anais Nin, 1934-1939
Hardcover/1995
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Fire: From 'A Journal of Love': The Unexpurgated Diary
of Anais Nin, 1934-1939
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Henry and June: From 'A Journal of Love': The Unexpurgated
Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1932
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Incest: From 'A Journal of Love': The Unexpurgated
Diary of Anais Nin 1932-1934
Paperback/1993
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Incest: From 'A Journal of Love': The Unexpurgated
Diary of Anais Nin 1932-1934
Hardcover/1992
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Nearer the Moon: From 'A Journal of Love': The Unexpurgated
Diary of Anais Nin 1937-1939
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Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1914-1920
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Anais Nin Herself: Reads Selections from Her Diaries,
1931-1934
Audio Cassette/1992
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Anais Nin Reads Excerpts from the Diary of Anais Nin
Audio Cassette/1993
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Diary of Anais Nin/2 Cassettes
Audio Cassettes/1988
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