A Spy in the House of Love (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anaïs Nin
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, New York City, 1940’s, Guilt, Obsession, Women’s issues, Adultery, Personality
- Locales: New York, NY
A Spy in the House of Love is the fourth installment in Nin's “continuous novel” titled Cities of the Interior. The latter unites six shorter individual works and focuses on three women—Djuna, Lillian, and Sabina—and the men in their lives. The novels are not necessarily sequential but are connected by a network of characters, settings, imagery, and language. Thus, they do not need to be read in any particular order and, though certain information and echoes may be missed, each volume stands as a complete work independent of the others.
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