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‘Fully conveys a life lived at white-hot intensity
and in total honesty: a psychological and literary triumph.’ - Chicago
Tribune
‘I wanted passion - I got it, and its punishment
too. I asked to be loved for my skin, feet, mouth, body,
sex. And I got all the violence that accompanies desire.’
Anaïs Nin’s diaries revealed her private self,
her doubts and weaknesses and the uncensored details about
her relationships. This fourth volume of A Journal of
Love
follows Henry and June, Incest and Fire
to cover the years 1937 - 39. It continues the story of
what Nin called her ‘dismemberment by love’. She
remains torn between three men: Henry Miller, whose detached
self-immersion and artistic amorality both attract and repel
her; Gonzalo Moré, a sensitive and attentive but
jealous lover who drives her to distraction; and Hugh Guiler,
her faithful husband.
The theme of these diaries is maturity: Nin has acquired the
wisdom to see through Henry and Gonzalo, while her relationship
with her husband is clarified. She cannot love him physically
but she needs him as an anchor. Nearer the Moon is
also the volume in which Nin settles with her father, Joaquin
Nin.
The diary ends with Nin’s departure from France as war
looms. She has no idea that she will never live in France
again and that this is the last diary to be written there.
• Preface by Rupert Pole, Nin’s ‘other husband’
• First UK & Commonwealth edition
• Only edition currently available
• Essential reading for devotees of Nin’s diaries
ANAÏS NIN was born in Paris in 1903 and moved to the
USA at the age of eleven. She returned to Paris a decade later
and studied psychoanalysis. Her first book was published in
the 1930s and she went on to write stories, journals, a series
of autobiographical novels and her celebrated volumes of erotica,
The Delta of Venus and Little Birds. She died
in 1977. |
