Incest: From a Journal of Love : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

Anaïs Nin

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992 - Biography & Autobiography - 418 pages

"Few writings explore a woman's love life in such detail, with such subtlety, insight, and pain, as does Anais Nin's original, uncensored diary. It is a life record that deals openly with the physical aspects of relationships and unsparingly with the full spectrum of psychological ramifications. Here was a woman who sought the freedom to act out her sexual and emotional desires with the same guiltless, "amoral" abandon that men have always claimed for themselves." "When Nin began publishing sections of her diary in 1966, this aspect of her life was excised, though clearly there was more than could be told at the time concerning her relationships with Henry Miller and his wife, June, with the writer and actor Antonin Artaud, with her analysts Rene Allendy and Otto Rank, and - most important - with her father. Here now is the previously missing portion of Nin's life in the crucial years from 1932 to 1934, the shattering psychological drama that drove her to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. In its raw exposure of a woman's struggle to come to terms with herself, to find salvation in the very act of writing, Incest unveils an Anais Nin without masks and secrets, yet in the end still mysterious, perhaps inexplicable."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

About the author

Anaïs Nin 1903-1977 Writer and diarist Anaïs Nin was born February 21, 1903 in Neuilly, France to a Catalan father and a Danish mother. She spent many of her childhood years with her Cuban relatives. Later, she became a naturalized American citizen. Nin is best known for her journals,"The Diary of Anais Nin, Vols. I-VII" and her erotic fiction. In fact, Nin was one of the raliest writers of erotica for women. She also wrote the book Henry and June, which was made into a movie of the same name in 1990. In 1973 Anaïs Nin received an honorary doctorate from the Philadelphia College of Art. She was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1974. She died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, on January 14, 1977.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Incest: From a Journal of Love : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934; Harvest book; Volume 2 of “A” journal of love, Anaïs Nin
• Author: Anaïs Nin
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jun 9, 2008
• ISBN: 0151443661, 9780151443666
• Length: 418 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures; Fiction / General