Ladders to Fire

Anaïs Nin

Swallow Press, 1959 - Fiction - 152 pages

After struggling with her own press and printing her own works, Anais Nin succeeded in getting Ladders to Fire accepted and published in 1946. This recognition marked a milestone in her life and career. Admitted into the fellowship of American novelists, she maintained the individuality of her literary style. She resisted realistic writing and drew on the experience and intuitions of her diary to forge a novelistic style emphasizing free association, the language of emotion, spontaneity, and improvisation. Ladders to Fire is the first volume of Nin's celebrated series of novels called Cities of the Interior For Anais Nin, her writing and her life were not separable, they were both part of the same experience. She claimed that "is it the fiction writer who edited the diary." Anais Nin continues to find an audience, whether for her fiction, her diaries, or her own life story, which has enjoyed the attention of biographers and filmmakers. This 1995 reissue of Ladders to Fire has a new cover and foreword. Anais Nin (1903-1977) was a unique literary figure of the twentieth century. As a novelist she was distinctly catalytic, and her life-long diary resembles no other in the history of letters. Her books have been translated in a dozen languages."

Contents

• Section 1: 7
• Section 2: 17
• Section 3: 66

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: Ladders to Fire; Swallow paperbook
• Author: Anaïs Nin
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Swallow Press, 1959
• ISBN: 0804001812, 9780804001816
• Length: 152 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Literary Collections / American / General; Literary Collections / Essays