The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

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The author's experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establishment, and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. "[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of this century" (New York Times Book Review). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.
Paperback, 235 pages
Published 1971 by Harvest
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Vicky
Highlights for me include when Anaïs Nin meets Maya Deren, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal. World War II ends. Nin's status as a temporary visitor in the U.S. expires or something, so since she can't go back to France (she doesn't state why), she will have to leave the country and come back as a permanent resident, and this volume ends with her on a road trip out west, then to Acapulco where she recalls the definition of "tropic" to mean "turning" and "changing" and that is where perhaps she will be r...more
Juliana
Quotes:

"Olga had given herself to a cause, a system: this system and cause had failed. While she gave herself, her own development on a deeper level was static.
When the system failed (historically) there was never a question that it may have failed because it was composed of incompleted human beings, human beings who had cease to work on their individual development. And it is this development which I believe will influence history from within, rather than systems. If enough individuals had work...more
Mary
In Acapulco - "We may seem to forget a person, a place, a state of being, a past life, but meanwhile what we are doing is selecting a new cast for the reproduction fo the same drama. And one day will I open my eyes in this beautiful, overwhelming place and see that I am caught in the same pattern, repeating the same story? I remembered that the definition of tropic was "turning," changing. and I felt a new woman would be born here."
Shayda
The question of how to evaluate the later volumes of the Diary really comes up for me with this one. The editing brings in a host of friends and acquaintances, but Nin's relationships with them seem attenuated (and all of these original volumes were heavily edited, so far as I know). Nin's harping on the value of youth, because of its interest in the new, sounds self-serving at times (she was struggling to keep her fiction in print and to have it understood).

The book description really overstat...more
Eva Triay
"A new women will born..."
Ciara
Dec 29, 2008 Ciara rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anais nine devotees, diarists, aspirants of the printed word
more anais nin diaries. maybe this is the one where she & her friend gonzalo set up their own printing press? i think so. it doesn't work out so well.
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French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's voyage of self-discovery. "It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all." (from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. I, 1966)

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