Nalbantian aesthetic autobiography of benjamin
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With all the recent attention on Anais Nin's controversial and sensational life, her real achievements as a literary artist are often overlooked. This collection of essays, with a comprehensive introduction by Suzanne Nalbantian, probes Nin's literary crafts in its psychological and stylistic dimensions. The various critics such as Catherine Broderick, Anna Balakian, and Harriet Zinnes examine her artistry and identify the literary techniques that make her unique as a modernist writer in her fiction as well as in her poetic vision. Others like Philip Jason, Sharon Spencer, Suzette Henke, Valerie Harms, and Edmund Miller observe the transfer of her psychoanalytical positions to narrative. This collection of essays includes two previously unpublished letters from her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell to her husband Ian Hugo, an analysis by Benjamin Franklin V of her reception connected with the jackets for A Spy in the House of Love, and fresh commentary on her reception in Japan.
Conversations with Anaïs Nin (Literary Conversations Series (Cloth))
Anaïs Nin participated in more interviews about her life and work in a span of ten years than most writers and artists do in a lifetime. When she published her first diary in 1966, her work began attracting widespread interest from a younger generation who found in her journal from the 1930s and 1940s, a woman they admired and a life that intrigued them. After 30 years as a writer, Nin finally received the reception she desired. She began travelling in the U.S. and abroad, giving lectures at colleges and universities, holding intimate discussion groups with students, and conducting interviews with popular magazines, literary journals and major city newspapers. Twenty-four of these interviews have now been collected in a book edited by Wendy M. DuBow, Ph.D., _Conversations with Anaïs Nin_ (published in 1994 by the University Press of Mississippi as part of the Literary Conversations series).
In these interviews, Nin elaborates on subjects only touched upon in the diaries, and speaks of her role in the women’s movement and her philosophies on art, writing and individual growth.
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