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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Anaïs Nin; Anaïs Nin; Anaïs Nin |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anaïs Nin; Paul Herron |
| ISBN: | 9780804011464 080401146X |
| OCLC Number: | 851572866 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiii, 415 pages, [8] unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | PREFACE / Paul Herron -- INTRODUCTION / Kim Krizan -- AGAIN TOWARDS AMERICA: Will I ever reach joy? -- JOHN: I believe I have defended myself against suffering -- NANANKEPICHU II: We saved the dream -- THE COLLECTOR: I suggested we feed him the diary -- INTERMEZZO: Please lead me into the world of pleasure -- I REMEMBERED THIS: My first erotic feeling -- THE PRESS: I don't want to think-I want to do some typesetting -- NO PUEDO MAS: I do not want you back -- A DREAM OF HAITI: My desire surges towards him -- WOMAN OF ACTION: I feel ready for this -- UNDER A GLASS BELL: My own soul has reached into other souls -- L'HOMME FATAL: My difficulty with the feminine man -- THE TRANSPARENT CHILD: He is my son, my lover -- THE PROBLEM OF THE DIARY: My own voice is here -- THIS GREAT HUNGER: Now you must find reality -- GORE: If I could have loved a woman, it would be you -- AWAKENING: Oh, the drug of my marvelous dreams -- ENDINGS: The hell grew larger as the illusions broke -- RENUNCIATION:There was a stranger in my bed -- LIFE!:Touch, oh, touch this man of fire. |
| Responsibility: | [Anaïs Nin] edited by Paul Herron ; with an introduction by Kim Krizan. |
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"The fifth volume in the unexpurgated series that is gradually replacing the earlier, sanitized edition of Nin's famous diary begins with her 1939 flight from war-shadowed Paris to New York and tracks her struggles to adapt to America and reconfigure her writing life. Here she records the intimate details of her long, profoundly complicated marriage to Hugh Guiler, or Hugo, her "jailer" and "lifesaver," and explicitly chronicles her descent into "erotic madness" as she conducts concurrent affairs that include a pragmatic liaison with critic Edmund Wilson and obsessive entanglements with much younger lovers and her "children," a coterie of gay men, including 20-year-old Gore Vidal. Exacting and eviscerating, Nin tirelessly dissects her desperate longing to be transported by love. A self-described "Dona Juana," she feels like Don Quixote until she meets Rupert Pole, who dispels her mirages and offers her the nurturing counterbalance to Hugo she needs. Nin--calculating, theatrical, and prodigious - provides cascading insights into the traumas that made her a "demon of intensity" determined to turn her life into a literary work of unique psychological revelation."--Donna Seaman, Booklist, October 2013 "In Mirages, she stands before us, stripped bare, unmasked, triumphant, among her cast of sacred and noires betes (Gore Vidal, Henry Miller, et al.) now revealed, by name, as who and what they were to her. Mirages exposes, reveals and humanizes Nin as much more than the sum of heavily edited parts." - Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, author of The Visitors' Book (or Silva Rerum): An Erotic Fable "Mirages provides a treasure of newly disclosed Nin sentiments. Nin transcends self-reflection and offers a glimpse into what women feel but are rarely able to articulate, whether about daily experiences, or love gained and lost. With intense passion, her powerfully seductive prose shares insights, observations, and confessions about the human psyche. Highly recommended." - Diana Raab, author of Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You "Henry Miller called her a 'masterpiece' and the greatest 'fabulist' he had ever known. Her brother Joaquin referred to her as a 'steel hummingbird.' As for me, she was a myth in her own time, the Scheherazade of the diary genre, and epitomizes Harold Bloom's observation in Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, to wit, 'Romance, literary and human, depends on partial or imperfect knowledge.'" - Barbara Kraft, author of Anais Nin: The Last Days and The Restless Spirit: Journal of a Gemini "The celebrated diarist, novelist and electric personality reappears with all the fire of her eroticism in pages untouched by a Bowdler or a Puritan... Readers will find Nin a most entertaining companion - her multiple simultaneous relationships with men, her gleefully graphic descriptions of sex acts... In one late entry, Nin complains, mildly: 'My world is so large I get lost in it'; readers will do the same - and gratefully so." - Kirkus Reviews "At times desperate and suicidal, (Nin) finds life more fulfilling when it conforms to her dreams - a series of mirages she conjures to avoid reality, the horrors of war, and an America she finds abysmally immature... Nin fans will embrace the book's emotional intensity and sensuality." - Publishers Weekly Read more...

