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Nin, Anaïs
First UK edition. Peter Owen, London, 1993. Binding bright and clean, with only the slightest shelfwear. Dust jacket is lightly scuffed at spine and back cover, and some edgewear. A really lovely copy.
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Why it's in the Cabin
A first edition of this posthumously published volume from Anaïs Nin's unexpurgated diaries, covering the period of 1932-1934 and delving explicitly into her intense and complex romantic and sexual relationship with her father, Joaquín Nin, which began after years of separation. This candid and controversial diary segment also chronicles her burgeoning literary life in Paris, her relationships with other significant figures such as Henry Miller and his wife June, her husband Hugo Guiler, and psychoanalysts Otto Rank and René Allendy, all interwoven with her profound emotional and psychological struggles. The book offers a raw and unfiltered look into Nin's inner world, her exploration of sexuality, her quest for self-understanding through psychoanalysis, and her attempts to reconcile her various relationships while grappling with the taboo nature of her paternal bond, providing crucial insight into the formative years that shaped her distinctive literary and personal identity. This is Nin's deep examination into her own impulses and desires.
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Anaïs Nin
The biggest subject of her work, Nin was a diarist, essayist, novelist, and short story writer, celebrated for her intensely introspective and psychologically complex body of work. Born in France to Cuban parents and later settling in the United States, Nin's prolific writing career was deeply intertwined with her personal life, exploring themes of female sexuality, identity, and the subconscious mind. Her distinctive lyrical and experimental prose, often influenced by surrealism and psychoanalysis, gained a cult following and contributed significantly to the feminist literary canon by fearlessly articulating female desire and experience.