The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1 by Anaïs Nin

Book is clean with only minor wear to the cover. This bohemian read will have you tranported back to the 1930s in Paris before she and Henry were famous for their writing. It was copyrighted in 1966 and is 366 pages. This is Volume I of The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934. They were edited and introduced by Gunther Stuhlmann. The diaries were published in soft cover by The Swallow Press and Harcourt Brace & World, Inc. Her second husband published an unexpurgated version after the death of Nin and Hugo. The diaries which she began as a small child are presented here in the edited version published while both she and her first husband were still alive. Unable to get published, Nin in her early days created her own publishing house and published her own works and those of other underground writers in Paris where she was born in a nearby suburb in 1903. One of the most controversial woman writers of her era, Anais Nin in some ways is more known for her friendship with Henry Miller than her own writing. Not one to write stories about what she saw, she wrote about what she experienced and the people who shared the experiences. For those who venture into her substantial body of work, she is a deeply passionate woman who wrote from the inside out.

For many people she is a 3 letter word in a crossword puzzle. The second volume of one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters (Los Angeles Times).Beginning with the author’s arrival in New York, this diary recounts Anaïs Nin’s work as a psychoanalyst, and is filled with the stories of her analytical patientsas well as her musings over the challenges facing the artist in the modern world. Six more volumes of her diary would follow.One of the most controversial woman writers of her era, Anais Nin in some ways is more known for her friendship with Henry Miller than her own writings. The published version of her diary would be very popular among young women, making Nin a feminist icon in the 1960s. Due to its size (in 1966, the diary contained more than 15,000 typewritten pages in some 150 volumes) and literary style, she would not find a publisher until 1966, when the first volume of her diary would be published, covering the years 1931 - 1934 in her life. Despite the attempts of her mother, therapists Rene Allendy and Otto Rank, and writer Henry Miller, to break Nin of her dependence on the diary, she would continue to keep a diary up until her death in 1977.Īs early as the 1930s Nin had sought to have the diary published.

Over the years, the diary would become Nin's best friend and confidante.

Nin would later say she had begun the diary as a letter to her father, Cuban composer Joaquín Nin, who had abandoned the family a few years earlier. The Diary of Anaïs Nin is the published version of Anaïs Nin's own private manuscript diary, which she began at age 11 in 1914 during a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinkers own words, covering the time when Nin is.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1 by Anaïs Nin