Incest

Incest Synopsis

The trailblazing memoirist and author of Henry & June recounts her relationships with Henry Miller and othersincluding her own father. Anas Nin wrote in her uncensored diaries like they were a broad-minded confidante with whom she shared the liberating psychosexual dramas of her life. In this continuation of her notorious Henry & June, she recounts a particularly turbulent period between 1932 and 1934, and the men who dominated it: her protective husband, her therapist, and the poet Antonin Artaud. However, most consuming of all is novelist Henry Millera man whose genius, said Anas, was so demonic it could drive people insane. Here too, recounted in extraordinary detail, is the sexual affair she had with her father. At once loving, exciting, and vengeful, it was the ultimate social transgression for which Anas would eventually seek absolution from her analysts. ';Before Lena Dunham there was Anas Nin. Like Dunham, she's been accused of narcissism, sociopathy, and sexual perversion time and again. Yet even that comparison undercuts the strangeness and bravery of her work, for Nin was the first of her kind. And, like all truly unique talents, she was worshipped by some, hated by many, and misunderstood by most... A woman who'd spent decades on the bleeding edge of American intellectual life, a woman who had been a respected colleague of male writers who pushed the boundaries of acceptable sex writing. Like many great... experimentalists, she wrote for a world that did not yet exist, and so helped to bring it into being.' The Guardian Includes an introduction by Rupert Pole

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