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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
The final volume ends as the author wished-not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous, reflective moment on a trip to Bali. "One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters" (Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index; photographs.
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
October 14th 1981
by Mariner Books
(first published May 1976)
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I remember about 4 or 5 years ago I had heard or read somewhere that it was a sort of invasion of someone's privacy to read their diary or journal even if it was legally published and so to speak 'for the public' and at that time I had only read one author's published journal about a 13 year old girl who was from the Carribean or maybe her parents were from there...Anyways,I was about 12 when I read the book and I remember enjoying it.I almost convinced myself that I would'nt read any other jour...more
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you really, really have to be in the mood to read these things, & with this one...i was not. i actually fell asleep reading at one point, which has only happened to me one other time in the last 31 years. this is the last volume of the adult diaries, covering the period immediately following the publishing & surprise success of the first volume. suddenly anais is being feted about, invites to speak at college commencements, given honorary doctorates, interviewed for magazine pieces &...more
This is the final volume of the Journal of Anais Nin, of which I have read one volume a year over the past seven years. This is probably the longest it has taken me to read one of the volumes (I usually begin in January of the new year), but I'm glad I've paced myself, knowing that this book marks the end of a great artist's lifetime and a long personal journey. It's wonderful to see Anais' dream of recognition lived, as well as her work's reception of the praise it was long due. Interestingly,...more
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Letter to a reader:
I feel the crux of your conflict is that you want to go too fast. At twenty-five I was like you—ambivalent, uncertain. Take time. It is an organic, slow growth. You hurt yourself by looking at me now in late maturity and comparing me with your youth. You're hard on yourself. The neurosis is there—shocks, wounds, losses. I turned for help at those moments. The neurosis keeps us from growing. Can you deal with that? Can you get help? You are rich within and full of...more
At this diary seems more like a travelogue and an appointment book, but it is interspersed with flights of fancy, the fast gutting of a freshly cooked fish in the deft hands of a geisha, a seminude knife weilding young dark man who emerges from bushes in cambodia, and a festive cremation in Bali. There are wonderful photographs in the center of this book ranging from slightly uncomfortable shots of her posing with locals in her travels through asia to a portrait with her frou frou puppy Piccolin...more
As writer, woman, feminist, emotionally struggling throughout her entire life...peace.
Although I like Anais quite alot, this book was not as interesting to me as other books of hers, such as Vol. 2 of her diary, and Henry & June.
why couldn't i have been one of her lovers.
This book helped me.
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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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