Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947

Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947

Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when AnaÃ¯s 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 â€œthe One,â€ the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection. In the middle looms a period Nin describes as â€œhell,â€ 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, AnaÃ¯s wrote, â€œClose your eyes to the ugly things,â€ and, against a horrifying backdrop of war and death, Nin combats the worldâ€™s darkness with her own search for light.

Mirages collects, for the first time, the story that was cut from all of Ninâ€™s other published diaries, particularly volumes 3 and 4 of The Diary of AnaÃ¯s 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 Ninâ€™s love affair with Henry Miller? Just how troubled was her marriage to Hugh Guiler? What is the story behind Ninâ€™s â€œchildren,â€ 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Sky Blue Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-10-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Sky Blue Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-10-13
Format	Kindle eBook

Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947

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