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The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 2 (1934-1939) (1967)

by Anaïs Nin

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Series: Diary of Anais Nin (2)

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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.  … (more)
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Covering more extrospection than what I had gotten used to in volume one but still with that dreamy silken prose.

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. ( )
  kitzyl | Apr 21, 2021 |
Her erotic appetite compares to no other... for such a dainty bird. ( )
  rubymadden | Mar 22, 2014 |
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Andai a far visita a Theodore Dreiser all'Hotel Ausonia. Era un posto impersonale, con una grande finestra su Broadway. C'erano molti libri in giro e una scrivania coperta di fogli.
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The entire mystery of a woman's body lies in the intensity of the pulsation just before the orgasm. Sometimes it is slow, one-two-three, three palpitations which then project a fiery and icy liqueur through the body. If the palpitation is feeble, muted, the pleasure is like a gentler wave. The pocket seed of ecstasy bursts with more or less energy, when it is richest it touches every portion of the body, vibrating through every nerve and cell. If the palpitation is intense, the rhythm and beat of it is slower and the pleasure more lasting. Electric flesh-arrows, a second wave of pleasure falls over the first, a third which touches every nerve end, and now the third like an electric current traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
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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.  

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