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This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with
de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair
penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical
woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th
century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional
figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de
Beauvoir can be considered definitive".--The Atlantic. 16-page
photographic insert.
A The Times & Sunday Times Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year
'Fascinating... Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing' Sunday
Times 'Gripping... A story well told.' New York Times Book Review
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020 In 1971 Deirdre
Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to
secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He
agreed that she could write his biography despite never having
written - or even read - a biography herself. The next seven years
of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar
cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which
went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her
next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catch? De Beauvoir and
Beckett despised each other - and lived essentially on the same
street. While quite literally dodging one subject or the other, and
sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great cafes of Paris,
Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography
rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the
domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in
approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile. Drawing
on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including
never-before-told anecdotes and details that were considered
impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives is full of
personality and warmth and gives us an entirely new window on the
all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers.
In The Novel of the Future, Anais Nin explores the act of
creation-in film, art, and dance as well as literature-to chart a
new direction for the young artist struggling against what she
perceived as the sterility, formlessness, and spiritual bankruptcy
afflicting much of mid-twentieth-century fiction. Nin offers,
instead, an argument for and synthesis of the poetic novel and
discusses her own efforts in this genre as well as its influence on
the development of such writers as D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller,
Lawrence Durrell, Marguerite Young, and Djuna Barnes. In chapters
devoted to the pursuit of the hidden self, the genesis of fiction,
and the relationship between the diary and fiction, she addresses
the materials, techniques, and nourishment of the arts, and the
functions of art itself. Originally published in 1968, The Novel of
the Future remains a classic among both creative writers and
literary scholars. This new Swallow Press edition includes an
introduction by Nin biographer Deirdre Bair.
This authoritative biography reveals the untold truth about Carl
Jung's secret work for the Allies during World War II, his
controversial affair with one of his patients, and the contents of
his private papers, as well as never before published photos.
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