Anais Nin

This book of essays is the first to probe Anais Nin's achievements as a literary artist. With an introduction by the editor, Suzanne Nalbantian, the collection examines the literary strategies of Nin in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions. Various contributors scrutinize Nin's artistry, identifying her unique modernist techniques and her poetic vision. Others observe the transfer of her psychoanalytical positions to narrative. The volume also contains fresh views of Nin by her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell as well as innovative analyses of the reception of her works.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; S.Nalbantian - Aesthetic Lies; S.Nalbantian - Anais Nin, My Sister and Letters to Hugh Guiler (Hugo) from Joaquin Nin-Culmell, December 26, 1978 and October 3, 1979; J.Nin-Culmell - PART 1: DREAM CITIES AND OTHER INSCAPES - Cities of Her Own Invention; C.Broderick - Art, the Dream, the Self; H.Zinnes - Anais Nin, the Poet; A.Balakian - Illusions and Delusions in Collages; M-R.Logan - PART 2: PSYCHOANALYSIS IN NIN'S WRITINGS - Beyond Therapy: Anais Nin and Otto Rank; S.Spencer - Anais and her Analysts: Creative and Destructive Aspects; V.Harms - Anais Nin's Journal of Love: Father-Loss and Incentuous Desire; S.Henke - PART 3: GENDER READINGS OF THE FICTION - The Men in Nin's (Characters') Lives; P.K.Jason - Anais Nin's Language through Birth: Masculine/Feminine; L.Elkan - Erato Throws a Curve: Anais Nin and the Elusive Feminine Voice in Erotica ; E.Miller - PART 4: JAPANESE VOICES ON NIN - Anais Nin's Words of Power and the Japanese Sibyl Tradition; A.Miyake - Anais Nin's Feminity and the Banana Yoshimoto Phenomenon; T.Yamamoto - Between the Two Languages: Translation and Reception of Anais Nin; J.Kimura - PART 5: THE GENESIS AND DISSEMINATION OF NIN'S WORKS - Speaking With Your Skeleton: D.H. Lawrence's Influence on Anais Nin; L.W.Markert - Black Snow in Winter: Anais Nin in Paris, The Lawrence Durrell Connection; C.Alexandre-Garner - The Selling of A Spy in the House of Love; B.Franklin - Index