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Loading... The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 2 (1934-1939) (1967)by Anaïs Nin
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The second volume of "one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters" (Los Angeles Times). Beginning with the author's arrival in New York, this diary recounts Anaïs Nin's work as a psychoanalyst, and is filled with the stories of her analytical patients--as well as her musings over the challenges facing the artist in the modern world. The diary of this remarkably daring and candid woman provides a deeply intimate look inside her mind, as well as a fascinating chapter in her tumultuous life in the latter years of the 1930s. No library descriptions found. |
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This volume is more obviously edited with more chunky monthly updates of Nin's experiences and thoughts (which made it more laborious to read) than the previous daily transitions. There's a lot more focus on psychoanalysis and the difficulties of artistic temperaments and endeavours.
Nin seems to be living more outside of herself so the previously tight concentrated spotlight has diffused and spilt over to support a lot more characters and their feelings instead, which to me is always less interesting than Nin's own feelings and her own words.
Revolutionary ideology inevitably makes an appearance but with no real depths from either Nin nor her revolutionary-inclined pals. Henry and Gonzalo make me roll my eyes so much, and perhaps too much of the marginalia is filled with me growling at them.
During this period, it seems that Nin really got into writing and publishing so I really ought crack on to her fiction which I imagine that I'll be lolling senselessly, overwhelmed, on top of, like a cat on a bed of catnip. Also looking forward to volume three, which I imagine will be a true in-the-moment account of living through WWII. ( )