Incest
From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932–1934
- 432 pages
- English
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About This Book
The trailblazing memoirist and author of Henry & June recounts her relationships with Henry Miller and others—including her own father. Anaïs Nin wrote in her uncensored diaries like they were a broad-minded confidante with whom she shared the liberating psychosexual dramas of her life. In this continuation of her notorious Henry & June, she recounts a particularly turbulent period between 1932 and 1934, and the men who dominated it: her protective husband, her therapist, and the poet Antonin Artaud. However, most consuming of all is novelist Henry Miller—a man whose genius, said Anaïs, was so demonic it could drive people insane. Here too, recounted in extraordinary detail, is the sexual affair she had with her father. At once loving, exciting, and vengeful, it was the ultimate social transgression for which Anaïs would eventually seek absolution from her analysts. "Before Lena Dunham there was Anaïs Nin. Like Dunham, she's been accused of narcissism, sociopathy, and sexual perversion time and again. Yet even that comparison undercuts the strangeness and bravery of her work, for Nin was the first of her kind. And, like all truly unique talents, she was worshipped by some, hated by many, and misunderstood by most... A woman who'd spent decades on the bleeding edge of American intellectual life, a woman who had been a respected colleague of male writers who pushed the boundaries of acceptable sex writing. Like many great... experimentalists, she wrote for a world that did not yet exist, and so helped to bring it into being." — The Guardian Includes an introduction by Rupert Pole
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Note
- October 23, 1932
- October 30, 1932
- November 9, 1932
- November 10, 1932
- November 12, 1932
- November 16, 1932
- November 26, 1932
- November 27, 1932
- December 7, 1932
- December 13, 1932
- December 18, 1932
- December 21, 1932
- December 26, 1932
- January 1, 1933
- January 5, 1933
- January 6, 1933
- January 17, 1933
- January 19, 1933
- February 4, 1933
- February 14, 1933
- February 18, 1933
- February 21, 1933
- February 25, 1933
- March 9, 1933
- March 12, 1933
- March 16, 1933
- March 18, 1933
- March 20, 1933
- March 25, 1933
- April 11, 1933
- April 19, 1933
- May 1, 1933
- May 5, 1933
- May 10, 1933
- May 14, 1933
- May 16, 1933
- May 18, 1933
- May 21, 1933
- May 27, 1933
- May 29, 1933
- May 31, 1933
- June 1, 1933
- June 2, 1933
- June 3, 1933
- June 8, 1933
- June 12, 1933
- June 13, 1933
- June 18, 1933
- June 19, 1933
- June 20, 1933
- June 21, 1933
- June 22, 1933
- June 23, 1933
- PHOTOS
- July 2, 1933
- July 11, 1933
- July 16, 1933
- July 21, 1933
- August 2, 1933
- August 5, 1933
- August 7, 1933
- August 8, 1933
- August 18, 1933
- August 25, 1933
- August 30, 1933
- August 31, 1933
- September 4, 1933
- September 9, 1933
- September 10, 1933
- September 14, 1933
- September 17, 1933
- September 19, 1933
- September 21, 1933
- Sunday evening
- September 25, 1933
- September 30, 1933
- October 2, 1933
- October 6, 1933
- October 13, 1933
- October 16, 1933
- October 19, 1933
- October 27, 1933
- October 28, 1933
- October 30, 1933
- October 31, 1933
- November 1, 1933
- November 3, 1933
- November 7, 1933
- January 14, 1934
- January 20, 1934
- February 1, 1934
- February 4, 1934
- February 5, 1934
- February 6, 1934
- February 14, 1934
- March 4, 1934
- March 6, 1934
- March 8, 1934
- March 11, 1934
- March 12, 1934
- March 16, 1934
- March 27, 1934
- March 28, 1934
- April 15, 1934
- April 22, 1934
- April 25, 1934
- April 27, 1934
- May 4, 1934
- May 14, 1934
- May 18, 1934
- May 19, 1934
- May 25, 1934
- May 26, 1934
- May 27, 1934
- May 30, 1934
- June 1, 1934
- June 4, 1934
- June 6, 1934
- June 10, 1934
- June 11, 1934
- June 12, 1934
- June 14, 1934
- June 18, 1934
- June 20, 1934
- June 21, 1934
- June 30, 1934
- July 4, 1934
- July 7, 1934
- July 13, 1934
- July 16, 1934
- July 21, 1934
- July 23, 1934
- August 1, 1934
- August 2, 1934
- August 4, 1934
- August 7, 1934
- August 10, 1934
- August 11, 1934
- August 14, 1934
- August 15, 1934
- August 21, 1934
- August 22, 1934
- August 27, 1934
- August 29, 1934
- September 17, 1934
- September 19, 1934
- September 21, 1934
- September 23, 1934
- September 27, 1934
- October 6, 1934
- October 5, 1934
- October 7, 1934
- October 21, 1934
- October 24, 1934
- November 2, 1934
- November 7, 1934
- November 8, 1934
- November 10, 1934
- Biographical Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Footnotes