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Incest
First published 1992 · 515 pages
An unsparing, uncensored plunge into the raw psychological depths and transgressive desires of a woman seeking salvation through her own words.
What it feels like
Reading this uncensored diary feels like stepping directly into the raw, unsparing psychological landscape of a woman stripping away her own masks. The pace is steady and deeply introspective, pulling the reader through a shattering drama of physical desire, emotional entanglement, and ultimate transgression. It is a profoundly intimate experience, saturated with both the pain of self-discovery and the amoral abandon of seeking absolute freedom. The prose is detailed and subtle, capturing the complex ramifications of unconventional relationships and the desperate search for absolution. It will captivate readers who are drawn to fearless, confessional writing and who appreciate a mysterious, deeply personal exploration of how the very act of writing can become a form of salvation.
- Mood
- introspective
- psychologically intense
- mysterious
- painful
- Tone
- intimate
- unsparing
- confessional
- raw
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- sexual freedom · psychological struggle · writing as salvation · transgression and absolution · unconventional relationships
- The writing
- Detailed, subtle, and unsparingly raw in its exposure of the self.
- The arc
- Moves from a guiltless pursuit of physical and emotional desires into a shattering psychological drama of transgression and the search for absolution.
- Who it's for
- Readers who seek deeply intimate, uncensored psychological portraits and explorations of transgressive desires.
Content notes
- incest
- explicit sexual content
- psychological distress
About the book
Few writings explore a woman's love life in such detail, with such subtlety, insight, and pain, as does Anais Nin's original, uncensored diary. It is a life record that deals openly with the physical aspects of relationships and unsparingly with the full spectrum of psychological ramifications. Here was a woman who sought the freedom to act out her sexual and emotional desires with the same guiltless, "amoral" abandon that men have always claimed for themselves.
When Nin began publishing sections of her diary in 1966, this aspect of her life was excised, though clearly there was more than could be told at the time concerning her relationships with Henry Miller and his wife, June, with the writer and actor Antonin Artaud, with her analysts Rene Allendy and Otto Rank, and - most important - with her father. Here now is the previously missing portion of Nin's life in the crucial years from 1932 to 1934, the shattering psychological drama that drove her to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. In its raw exposure of a woman's struggle to come to terms with herself, to find salvation in the very act of writing, Incest unveils an Anais Nin without masks and secrets, yet in the end still mysterious, perhaps inexplicable.
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