Download or read book Anais Through the Looking Glass and Other Stories written by Colette Standish and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interpretation of the life and works of the diarist and erotic writer, Anais Nin seen through varies mediums including mirrors, glass and light-box installations.
Download or read book House of Incest written by Anaïs Nin and published by Sky Blue Press. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Incest, Anais Nin's famous prose poem, was first published in Paris in 1936 and immediately drew attention from the era's prominent writers, including Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell. While written in English, it is considered a landmark work in the French surrealist tradition and one of the most unique books in 20th century literature.
Download or read book Mirages written by Anaïs Nin and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anaïs 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 “the One,” the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection. In the middle looms a period Nin describes as “hell,” 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, Anaïs wrote, “Close your eyes to the ugly things,” and, against a horrifying backdrop of war and death, Nin combats the world’s darkness with her own search for light. Mirages collects, for the first time, the story that was cut from all of Nin’s other published diaries, particularly volumes 3 and 4 of The Diary of Anaïs 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 Nin’s love affair with Henry Miller? Just how troubled was her marriage to Hugh Guiler? What is the story behind Nin’s “children,” 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.
Download or read book The Drowned Muse written by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drowned Muse is a study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could seem, at first glance, quite ordinary in the history of European culture. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled "L'Inconnue de la Seine," the Unknown Woman of the Seine, and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. Legend has it that the "Inconnue" drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. The forensic scientist tending to her unidentified corpse at the Paris Morgue was supposedly so struck by her allure that he captured in plaster the contours of her face. This unknown girl, also referred to as "The Mona Lisa of Suicide", has since become the object of an obsessive interest that started in the late 1890s, reached its peak in the 1930s, and continues to reverberate today. Aby Warburg defines art history as "a ghost story for grown-ups." This study is similarly "a ghost story for grown-ups", narrating the aura of a cultural object that crosses temporal, geographical, and linguistic frontiers. It views the "Inconnue" as a symptomatic expression of a modern world haunted by the earlier modernity of the nineteenth century. It investigates how the mask's metamorphoses reflect major shifts in the cultural history of the last two centuries, approaching the "Inconnue" as an entry point to understand a phenomenon characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century modernity: the translatability of media. Doing so, this study mobilizes discourses surrounding the "Inconnue", casting them as points of negotiation through which we may consider the modern age.
Download or read book Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts written by Johanna Braun and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hysteria is alive and well in our present time and is apparently spreading contagiously: especially the second decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever-increasing interest in the term. A quick Google search opens the gates to sheer endless swathes of discussions on hysteria, covering almost every aspect of public discourses. The arts—as it is often in such cases—seem conspicuously involved in and engaged with this hysterical discourse. Surprisingly, while the strong academic interest in hysteria throughout the twentieth century and most prominently at the turn of the century is well known and much discussed, the study of how these discourses have continued well into twenty-first-century art practices, is largely pressing on a blind spot. It is the aim of this volume to illustrate how hysteria was already well established within the arts alongside and at times even separately from the much-covered medical studies, and reveal how those current artistic practices very much continue a century spanning cross-fertilization between hysteria and the arts.
Download or read book Anais Nin written by Maryanne Raphael and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For readers unfamiliar with her subject, Maryanne Raphael's biography, Anais Nin, The Voyage Within, is a sensitive, uncomplicated introduction to the life and work of one of the 20th century's most quintessentially feminine artists. For Nin devotees, the biography is a refresher course taking us back through the vast material of the Diaries and novels that enchanted and inspired our love. Raphael accepts Nin entirely on her own terms. Thanks to a warm, personal relationship with Rupert Pole, Nin's surviving husband and executor of her estate, Raphael opens up some of the mystery that has hitherto surrounded Nin's relationship with her husbands-an aspect of Nin's life that was never explicitly described in the original Diaries. The result is a multi-dimensional portrait in which Nin's two selves, artist and woman are fully integrated. Nin the woman consciously chooses to realize female desire, give form to female imagination, always loving as she remains completely focused on birthing a new unabashedly feminine literature. Thank you, Maryanne!" -Dolores Brandon, Author of IN THE SHADOW OF MADNESS, A Memoir
Download or read book Under a Glass Bell written by Anaïs Nin and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Portable Anais Nin written by Anais Nin and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded edition of a collection of Anais Nin's writings, including diary entries, complete fictions, erotica, correspondence, interviews and critical essays.
Download or read book The Diary of Ana s Nin 1947 1955 written by Anaïs Nin and published by HMH. This book was released on 1975-03-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times). Spanning from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, this volume covers the author’s experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris; her psychoanalysis; and her experiment with LSD. “Through her own struggling and dazzling courage [Nin has] shown women . . . groping with and growing with the world.” —Minneapolis Tribune Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
Download or read book Into The Looking Glass Wood written by Alberto Manguel and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the award-winning author of A History of Reading "For me, words on a page give the world coherence--Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be--I believe there is an ethic of reading--a commitment that is both political and private in the act of turning the pages. And I believe that sometimes, beyond the author's intentions and beyond the reader's hopes, a book can make us better and wiser." Through personal stories and literary reflections, in a style rich in humour and gentle erudition, Manguel leads us, the readers, to reflect upon the pleasures and responsibilities of reading, and the links that exist between the world we live in, and the words we live amongst. Into the Looking-Glass Wood is a voyage into the subversive heart of words - a voyage fired by the author's humanity and extraordinary breadth of vision.
Download or read book In Favor of the Sensitive Man written by Anaïs Nin and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, lectures, and interviews—on everything from gender relations to Ingmar Bergman to adventure travel—from the renowned diarist. In this collection, the author known for “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts (Los Angeles Times). In the opening group of essays, “Women and Men,” Anaïs Nin provides the kind of sensitive insights into the feminine psyche and relations between the sexes that are a hallmark of her work. In “Writing, Music, and Films,” she speaks as an artist and critic—in book and film reviews, an essay on the composer Edgard Varèse, a lecture on Ingmar Bergman, and the story of her printing press. In the final section, “Enchanted Places,” Nin records her travels to such destinations as Fez and Agadir in Morocco, Bali, the New Hebrides, and New Caledonia—and she concludes with a charming vignette titled “My Turkish Grandmother.”
Download or read book Seduction of the Minotaur written by Anais Nin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seduction of the Minotaur is an example of Anaïs Nin's most mature and cohesive fiction. The central character, Lillian, arrives in exotically primitive Mexico from New York, in part to forget her crumbling marriage and to find flow in her life after years of stasis. She befriends Dr. Hernandez, who, like Lillian, is also trying to forget, to escape, which he does with violence, shocking Lillian into facing her inner demon, the "Minotaur."Critic Oliver Evans says of Seduction of the Minotaur: "Its symbolism is the most complicated of any of Miss Nin's longer works...and at the same time it makes more concessions...to the tradition of the realistic novel: the result is a work of unusual richness."Consider this passage: "It was the time of the year when everyone's attention was focused on the moon. 'The first terrestrial body to be explored will undoubtedly be the moon.' Yet how little we know about human beings, thought Lillian. All the telescopes are focused on the distant. No one is willing to turn his vision inward... Such obsession with reaching the moon, because they have failed to reach each other, each a solitary planet!"Seduction of the Minotaur reveals Nin's struggle for self-awareness through her character Lillian. In a setting that is sumptuously described, with fully developed characters, the plot involves the dichotomy between civilization and the primitive, the dark and bright sides of human nature, with a conclusion that is classic Nin: enlightenment.
Download or read book The Diary of Ana s Nin 1944 1947 written by Anaïs Nin and published by HMH. This book was released on 1972-10-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times). The renowned diarist continues her record of her personal, professional, and artistic life, recounting her experiences in Greenwich Village for several years in the late 1940s, where she defends young writers against the Establishment—and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. “[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century.” —The New York Times Book Review Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
Download or read book Through the Looking Glass written by Lewis Carroll and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice discovers an unknown land on the other side of the mirror and finds herself part of a problem in chess, meeting some unlikely characters of nursery rhyme and puzzled by the reversal of many of the laws of nature. The follow-up to Alice in Wonderland, originally appeared in 1871 and has not been out of print since. Curious Alice finds her way through a mirror into an amazing alternate world that is, in some ways, a reverse version of our own. This surreal new dimension proves to be much more than that, as Alice discovers that her passage through it requires moving correctly across a chessboard landscape while encountering a string of nursery rhyme characters brought to bewildering life. Readers will find themselves confronted by one iconic moment after another, as Alice meets the Red Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, encounters the poems, Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter all presented in seemingly infinitely quotable prose. Despite repeated attempts down the years to reinterpret Through the Looking Glass as a social, political or religious allegory the book stands outside such concerns as a timeless classic of the imagination. It remains one of the most universally beloved children’s books in English, and cherished by adults as much, or perhaps even more, than it is by children. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Through the Looking Glass is both modern and readable.
Download or read book Black Eyed Susan written by Christine Black Cummings and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever pick a daisy—or a black-eyed Susan—pluck its petals and chant, "Loves me, loves me not?" If the final petal tells you, "Loves me not," how do you feel? If we give our power to a flower, to how many others do we give it away? Ever shrink from hurtful words and think you are a nothing? Blame an evil twin for your actions? Hear a voice trying to get your attention? Or do you just want a ticket to somewhere else? If so, step aboard and travel to lush locales and ordinary places as a daughter who felt fatherless engages her inner wisdom, pieces together the puzzle of who she is and learns that life's most important journey is into her heart. Unravel the mystery of Susan—from a bungalow in World War II Hawaii to a prayer group in southern California—as Christine and her all-knowing tour guide relive life experiences, witness miraculous connections, reframe the past and agree to walk into the future side by side. Learn as Christine listens to a still small voice, lets in the light, transforms dark experiences by viewing them from a higher perspective, takes out fresh paint brushes and recreates her life canvas using new patterns and colors. Celebrate with Christine as she embraces new definitions of self and family. Participate in intimate conversations that leave enough space around words to ignite your imagination, inspire your own journey and assure you, "If I can do it, you can too!"
Download or read book Companion to Literature written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."
Download or read book Through the Looking Glass And What Alice Found There Annotated written by Lewis Carroll and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking Glass or simply Through the Looking Glass) is an 1871 novelm by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it.
