Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais 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, Anais wrote, "Close your eyes to the ugly things," and,
against a horrifying backdrop of war and death, Nin combats the
world's darkness with her own search for light. Mirages collects,
for the first time, the story that was cut from all of Nin's other
published diaries, particularly volumes 3 and 4 of The Diary of
Anais Nin, which cover the same time period. It is the long-awaited
successor to the previous unexpurgated diaries Henry and June,
Incest, Fire, and Nearer the Moon. Mirages answers the questions
Nin readers have been asking for decades: What led to the demise of
Nin's love affair with Henry Miller? Just how troubled was her
marriage to Hugh Guiler? What is the story behind Nin's "children,"
the effeminate young men she seemed to collect at will? Mirages is
a deeply personal story of heartbreak, despair, desperation,
carnage, and deep mourning, but it is also one of courage,
persistence, evolution, and redemption that reaches beyond the
personal to the universal.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(74)
