Mirages : the unexpurgated diary of Anaïs Nin 1939-1947 / [Anaïs Nin] ; preface by Paul Herron ; introduction by Kim Krizan ; edited by Paul Herron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.

Contributor:

Herron, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.

Nin, Anaïs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anaïs Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be "the One," the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection. In the middle looms a period Nin describes as "hell," during which she experiences a kind of erotic madness, a delirium that fuels her search for love. As a child suffering abandonment by her father, Anaïs wrote, "Close your eyes to the ugly things," and, against a horrifying backdrop of war and death, Nin combats the world's

Contents:

Preface; Introduction; Again Towards America; John; Nanankepichu II; The Collector; Intermezzo; I Remembered This; The Press; No Puedo Mas; A Dream of Haiti; Woman of Action; Under a Glass Bell; L' homme Fatal; The Transparent Child; The Problem of the Diary; This Great Hunger; Gore; Awakening; Endings; Renunciation; Life!; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804040570

0804040575

OCLC:

862958292