House of Incest (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anaïs Nin
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Self, Alienation, Emotions, Incest, Lesbianism or lesbians, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
House of Incest was Nin's first published work of fiction. Though she was thirty-three years old when it was published and had been writing continuously for two decades, it exhibits the youthfulness of a first work in both its indulgence and its freedom. Nin called House of Incest a “prose poem” rather than a novel and, referring to a work by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, “a woman's Season in Hell.” She also took inspiration from Octave Mirbeau's 1898 painting Le Jardin des supplices (The Garden of Tortures). The seven sections of House...
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