The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anaïs Nin
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Diary
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Memory, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Self, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Social life, Incest, Novelists, Feminism, Fathers, Adultery, Creative process, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
- Locales: New York, Paris, France, Los Angeles, CA
Nin began keeping a diary on July 25, 1914, as an ongoing letter to her father that she hoped would someday bring him back to her family. Sixty years later, in the summer of 1974, Nin concluded her diary while enjoying the exotic landscape and culture of Bali. During those six decades, her personal journal of daily life and experience grew to 150 volumes, or some fifteen thousand typewritten pages. It is unquestionably her masterpiece, both as a literary work and as a social document of the artistic life of the twentieth century.
The diary reflects Nin's creative attitude...
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