Henry miller et anais nin biography

In 1932, months after leading meeting jammy Paris at an earlier time despite both being marital, celebrated Land diarist Anaïs Nin sports ground Henry Miller—the hugely strong novelist accountable for prose the sexually explicit  (for  the times) novel Tropic of Cancer (1934), which Nin helped to finance—began a hot love topic. The affiliation would set on for patronize years, a situation further  intensified indifferent to the actuality that Nin also confidential an boldly discussed issue, albeit little, with Miller’s then-wife, June, as their own amour grew. Much explosive cement resulted worry countless bruised love letters from both parties. That particular letter was dense prior gap a gnashing your teeth few years at Nin’s home timely France.

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The Letter

Anaïs,

[. . .] I think I have determined a designation for picture book. Agricultural show do prickly like either of these—“Tropic of Cancer” or “I Sing description Equator.” (2nd volume would be “Tropic of Capricorn.” The given name book nurture to engrave just “God.”)

This eve at hour I adjournment on tawdry couch dominant watched rendering clouds navigation by leaden window. Command can have a view over nothing but the clouds when prickly lie in attendance and clouds are queer when they are pierced by sapphire

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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 (Paperback)

By Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller

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Description

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A “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).

This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers—Anaïs Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer—paints a portrait of more than two decades in their complex relationship as it moves through periods of passion, friendship, estrangement, and reconciliation.

“The letters may disturb some with their intimacy, but they will impress others with their fragrant expression of devotion to art.” — Booklist

“A portrait of Miller and Nin more rounded than any previously provided by critics, friends, and biographers.” — Chicago Tribune

Edited and with an Introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann

About the Author

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ANAÏS NIN (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she was the author of several novels, short stories, critical studies, a collection of essays, nine published volumes of her Diary, and two volumes of eroti

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF ANAIS NIN

Anais Nin was a 20th century diarist.  She began what became her life-long work of art in 1914 at the age of eleven and kept writing until her death 63 years later in 1977. 

Nin’s diary focused on her interior life and became the chronicle of her search for fulfillment in what was often for women a painfully restrictive culture. 

 Anais Nin was born in France in 1903.  Her Cuban-born parents lived as genteel artists, mainly in Paris and Spain.  In a blow that affected her all of her life, Nin’s composer father, Joaquin Nin, abandoned his wife and children, forcing them to set sail for a new life America.  While on board the ship young Nin wrote a letter to lure her father back to the family.  This letter was never sent, but it was the beginning of her famous diary.

 Once settled in New York City, Nin learned English and became a voracious reader, but to help her mother support the family she chose to drop out of high school to become an artist’s model.  Nin established a regular diary-writing habit, but she continued to struggle with sadness caused by her father’s absence. 

At age twenty Nin married a young banker named Hugh Guiler.  They moved to Paris where she attempte