Anais Nin

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966

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The sixth volume of the diary of “one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century” (The New York Times Book Review).
Anaïs Nin continues “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” with this volume covering more than a decade of her midcentury life (Los Angeles Times). She debates 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
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598 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • Irasema Fernándezhas quoted2 years ago
    I think that what I am discovering is that the great things are not those we plan on but those which simply happen; and so I feel, at times like this, that my life is arranged too rigidly, as if I were living according to some subconscious and partly conscious plan that ruled out certain realms of wonder and magnificence.
  • Irasema Fernándezhas quoted2 years ago
    Our desire to live everything out will always meet with the obstacle of guilt.
  • Irasema Fernándezhas quoted2 years ago
    No reviews in Los Angeles Times. No review of Miller Letters in Time magazine, which makes it a practice to assassinate Henry and to ignore me.

    After the negative letters from Random House, Putnam, and Morrow, Alan Swallow spoke to Hiram Haydn of Harcourt Brace. I was in New York, and Gunther gave a cocktail party. It. was at this party that Peter Israel definitely turned down the diary and Hiram Haydn said to me: “I love it. I will do it.” How I loved his directness and conviction. We talked. We had met before. He had me talk to his students at the New School. He has a daughter and he said something about the father-daughter relationship moving him deeply in the diary.
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