- Taschenbuch: 672 Seiten
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Auflage: New edition (13. Juni 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0747525420
- ISBN-13: 978-0747525424
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,4 x 13 x 4,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (9 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 818.543 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Biography of Nin, a bohemian writer best known for her voluminous diary and her sexually explicit fiction.
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Anai{‹}is Nin was a woman obsessed with self and sex, a weaver of elaborate lies and multiple identities, and one of the world's most famous diarists. She filled 69 volumes with her exploits, observations, and interpretations, labored painfully over her fiction, and finally, in the last decade of her unusual and flamboyant life, was granted the recognition she always craved. Although the diaries that made her reputation were heavily edited and reworked, her surviving husband, Rupert Pole, is currently releasing "unexpurgated" volumes, including the disquieting Incest: From a "Journal of Love" (1992). Literary scholar and author Noe{‰}l Riley Fitch took a stab at an authoritative biography of Nin in Anai{‹}s: The Erotic Life of Anai{‹}s Nin (1993) and did capture the essence of her contradictory and determined personality, but Bair, distinguished and best-selling biographer of Simone de Beauvoir and Samuel Beckett, has been able to bring the ever-elusive Nin into sharper focus. Bair is the first scholar to be granted access to Nin's original diaries and to have the full cooperation of Pole and Nin's family and friends. Accordingly, Bair takes pains to treat Nin with the objectivity and critical analysis a writer, even a "major minor" one like Nin, deserves. This sterling biography clears up confusion on several fronts and offers the best portrait not only of Nin but of her husband Hugo Guiler, the man who "paid" for Nin's extravagant and, in some ways, pioneering life. Donna Seaman
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A MUST read for Nin fans,
Von turtley "film fanatic • bibliophile" (Planet Claire) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Anais Nin: A Biography (Taschenbuch)
I have read all of Anais's diaries and works of fiction. This biography was skillful and compelling. So many people have trashed it, comparing it to the National Enquirer. But anyone, who truly read and truly took to heart Anais's diaries already knew she had deep problems. Minus a star because the book does not seem to stick to a chronological order of events which does get a bit confusing. Still a must read for any Nin fan.
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A very unsympathetic look at a unique woman,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Anais Nin: A Biography (Taschenbuch)
This book left me mixed. I learned more about the truth behind Anais Nin than I ever learned in reading all of the diaries--expurgated and unexpurgated--but I can't understand Bair's out-and-out loathing of Anais Nin. If you don't at least find her fascinating, why not write a biography about someone else? This book was filled with cynical biographer asides such as, "The house was always cold and her clothes were shabby. What a better way to lift her spirits than to throw a dinner party!" Really. I expect more from People Magazine.Of course anyone who knows a smidgeon about Anais Nin would never call her flawless. She was deeply, deeply flawed. And a responsible biographer should point out the flaws. But I felt like I was on the subway with a gossipy neighbor who wouldn't shut up about everything she didn't like about another woman. Let it rest. What's disappointing is that, from a research perspective, this was the best piece I've read about Anais Nin. Ms. Bair did her homework--hence the three stars. You won't find better research about Anais Nin than in Ms. Bair's book. If you want to know about Anais Nin, read it. But try to be cognizant of Ms. Bair's apparent jealous little sister attitude. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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superficial treatment,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Anais Nin: A Biography (Taschenbuch)
An extremely disappointing biography. Deirdre Bair skates along the surface of a very complicated, deeply neurotic, but talented and interesting woman, and makes no effort to explore the depths of Nin. Bair claims in the introduction to have attempted to write objectively, but what continually shines through the book is her dislike of Nin and her judgements of her as lazy, spoiled and unethical. Bair writes with all the finesse of a frustrated boulevard press contributor and is way out of her depths here. Nin is a fascinating person, both in a literary and psychological sense, and the fact that she was so manipulative, a pathological liar, and a bigamist should make a delving into her psyche all the more rewarding. Bair does not seem to know how to delve and I am not so sure she even knows what the psyche is. I would not recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more than who Nin had sex with or the tricks she pulled on Hugo.
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