
An influential artist and thinker, she wrote primarily fiction until 1964, when her last novel, Collages, was published. Six more volumes of her diary would follow. Anas Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. The published version of her diary would be very popular among young women, making Nin a feminist icon in the 1960s. Tlchargez le livre Summary of Anas Nins The Diary of Anas Nin, 19311934 de Everest Media en Ebook au format ePub sur Vivlio et retrouvez le sur votre. Due to its size (in 1966, the diary contained more than 15,000 typewritten pages in some 150 volumes) and literary style, she would not find a publisher until 1966, when the first volume of her diary would be published, covering the years 1931 - 1934 in her life. All about Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932) by Anas Nin. Despite the attempts of her mother, therapists Rene Allendy and Otto Rank, and writer Henry Miller, to break Nin of her dependence on the diary, she would continue to keep a diary up until her death in 1977.Īs early as the 1930s Nin had sought to have the diary published.


Over the years, the diary would become Nin's best friend and confidante.

Nin would later say she had begun the diary as a letter to her father, Cuban composer Joaquín Nin, who had abandoned the family a few years earlier. The Diary of Anaïs Nin is the published version of Anaïs Nin's own private manuscript diary, which she began at age 11 in 1914 during a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers.
