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writer  Anaïs  Nin
[1903-77]

short profile primary works other works journals & letters • quotes works about Anaïs Nin movies, plays, other media image gallery family & friends links

Anaïs Nin [1903-77] wrote thoughtful journals & diaries & essays & novels while seeking to find her Self
as an individual without obeying the dictates of feminism.

Anaïs Nin entry at Wikipedia
browse books xxx catalog at Amazon.com
somebody credits [] at Internet Movie Database
http://www.anaisnin.org/

Primary Works

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"Waste of Timelessness: And Other Early Stories" [] written before 1932, published posthumously

"House of Incest" (novel 1936)

"Winter of Artifice" (novel 1939)

"Under A Glass Bell" stories (1944)

"Cities of The Interior" [1959] in five volumes
"Ladders To Fire", "Children of The Albatross", "The Four-Chambered Heart", "A Spy In The House of Love",
and "Seduction of The Minotaur" (originally published as "Solar Barque" in 1958)

"Collages" (1964)

"The Novel of The Future" non-fiction (1968)

"In Favor of The Sensitive Man" non-fiction (1976)

"Delta of Venus" stories" (1977)

"Little Birds" stories (1979)

"Auletris" stories (2016)

Other Works

"D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study" (1932)

"The Restless Spirit: Journal of A Gemini" [1976] by Barbara Kraft, Preface by Anaïs Nin

"Aphrodisiac: Erotic Drawings by John Boyce For Selected Passages From The Works of Anaïs Nin" []

"Alice" short story [Playboy Magazine Jan 1996]

Journals  and  Letters

"The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1931" in four volumes

"The Diary of Anaïs Nin" in seven volumes, edited by herself

"Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932" [1986]
edited by Rupert Pole after her death

"A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller" (1987)

"Incest: From A Journal of Love" (1992)
"Fire: From A Journal of Love" (1995)
"Nearer the Moon: From A Journal of Love" (1996)

"Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947" (2013)
"Mirages, the Unexpurgated Diaries of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947, edited by Paul Herron (Swallow, October 2013)

"Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947-1955" (2017)

Quotations  of  Anaïs  Nin

"The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations With Citations" [2014] Edited & with Introduction by Paul Herron, Illustrations by Ian Hugo Kindle Edition from Sky Blue Press [6/2014] for $4.99 Sky Blue Press 9x6 pb [11/2015] for $9.99

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”

“We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.”

“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's.”

“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”

“If you do not breathe thru writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially.
We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward,
or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully,
enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”

“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts,
my appearance, my flaws - and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am.”

Movies, Plays, Other Media

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"Ritual In Transfigured Time" silent short [1946] as actress, directed by Maya Deren /tt0038885/
http://www.amazon.com/Maya-Deren-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B082JP6VJZ/
http://www.amazon.com/Maya-Deren-Collection/dp/B082JPW9WH/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IG5K65gkTU [14.27] with electronic music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKyYI7i3FVM [14.27] with better electronic music

"Bells of Atlantis" short [1952] as actress, directed by {husband} Ian Hugo /tt0235221/
based on Anais Nin's "House of Incest"; soundtrack of electronic music by Louis & Bebe Barron; stars Nin as a mythical queen of Atlantis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE-7qEftad8 [9.13]

"Inauguration of The Pleasure Dome" short [1954] as actress (Astarte); directed by Kenneth Anger /tt0047114/
inspired by the Joris-Karl Huysmans novel "À Rebours (Backwards)" [1884]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_rebours
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration_of_the_Pleasure_Dome
http://www.amazon.com/Films-Kenneth-Anger-Samson-Brier/dp/B000JFXRU6/
http://www.amazon.com/Magick-Lantern-Cycle-Vol-Inauguration/dp/6303504434/

"Anaïs Nin: Her Diary" TV movie [Creative Arts TV April 1966] /tt1219310/
directed by Nick Havinga; written by Stephan Chodorov; featuring Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin interview [May 1966] - no details on IMDb
episode of the "Camera Three" Sunday morning series [CBS-TV 1955-80] /tt0271280/

employed as writer on one or more episodes, circa 1968 - no details on IMDb
of the "Femme d'Aujour d'Hui (Women of Today)" TV talk show [French Canada 1965-82] /tt7716604/

"Anaïs Nin: L'Intimité Dévoilé (Intimacy Unveiled)" [June 1970] /tt6778534/
episode of "Le Sel de La Semaine ("The Salt of The Week")" TV series [Radio-Canada TV 1965-70]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvXXLec8XE b&w [57:52]

Anaïs Nin interview [Sept 1970] /tt1400045/
episode of "Dim Dam Dom" documentary TV series [ORTF-TV France 1965-70] /tt0356252/

Anaïs Nin interview [April 1971] /tt2342975/
episode #11.1 of the "Pariser Journal" documentary TV series [1962-71] /tt2329997/

"Anais Nin Observed" documentary [June 1974] directed by Robert Snyder /0243115/
http://www.amazon.com/Anais-Nin-Observed/dp/B014GCSYBY/
http://www.amazon.com/Anais-Observed-VHS-Nin/dp/6303852912/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3AC39RxjPU [1.00.36]

episode dated 11 Nov 1974 /tt6427780/ of the "Ouvrez Les Guillemets ("Open Quotes")" TV series [ORTF-TV France 1973-75]

"La Stanza Delle Parole (The Word Room)" feature film [Italy 1989] based on the novel "Henry & June" /tt0100682/

"Henry & June" feature film [Walrus/Universal 1990] based on the novel /0099762]
http://www.amazon.com/Henry-NON-USA-FORMAT-Blu-Ray-Reg-B/dp/B00XVFPLS2/
http://www.amazon.com/Henry-June-Fred-Ward/dp/0783230559/
first film ever released with the NC17 rating - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilACmWdTXWg [2.13]

"Drug-Taking and The Arts" documentary TV movie [Channel 4 TV Feb 1993] /tt0257573/
Devised & directed by Storm Thorgerson; written by David Gale; includes excerpts of works by Charles Baudelaire, Paul Bowles, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wm. S. Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gérard de Nerval, Thomas De Quincey, Philip K. Dick, Théophile Gautier, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, Anna Kavan, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Jay McInerney, Anaïs Nin, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Rimbaud; hosted by Bernard Hill; actors include Phil Daniels, Thom Booker, Patrick Barlow, John McEnery, Jon Finch, Danny Webb, Brian Cory, Todd Boyco, Diana Quick {as Anaïs Nin}, John Sessions; featuring Brian Aldiss, J.G. Ballard, Paul Bowles, Carolyn Cassady, Ann Charters, Allen Ginsberg, Ronald Hayman, John Hemmings, Laura Archera Huxley, Malcolm Lader, Timothy Leary, June Rose, Hubert Selby Jr., Harry Shapiro, Jay Stevens

"Blue Movie" 5-minute short [1994] voice?/narrator? /tt1110237/

"Delta of Venus" feature film [1995] /tt0109593/
Directed by Zalman King; starring Audie England & Costas Mandylor
http://www.amazon.com/Delta-Venus-Audie-England/dp/B0000D0YXU/
http://www.amazon.com/Delta-Venus-VHS-Audie-England/dp/0780606736/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Y7aUoj4Fw [1.20]

"Portrait of A Bookstore As An Old Man" documentary film [Sycomore Films March 2003]

52-minute color docufilm about the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, France, opened by George Whitman in 1951, which he desribes as his 'den of anarchists disguised as a bookstore' • Written & directed by Gonzague Pichelin & Benjamin Sutherland; featuring George Whitman (owner), John Baxter, Gary Brown, Pia Cooper, Robert Cordier, George Davey, Jean-Pierre Faye, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Noël Riley Fitch, Christopher Cook Gilmore, Simon Green, Julia Koch, Suzy Marston, Matthew McWilliams, Jeremy Mercer, Mike Neil, Claude Terre Neuve, Kit Nicholls, Kathleen O'Hara, Karl Orend, Thomas Pancake, Chad Ridgeway, Bertrand Silly, Will Staple, Nanos Valaoritis, Thirza Vallois, Arnie Weiiss, Sylvia Whitman; with archive footage of James Baldwin, Sylvia Beach, Wm. S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Durrell, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Richard Wright VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie fanblog, 5/2009 • bookstore entry at Wikipedia watch ending segment [7/2008 upload; 6:08] online at YouTube

"The Erotic Adventures of Anais Nin"
[IWC Media/Sky Arts TV UK July 2015]

When a young reporter discovers Anais Nin's provocative writings, she uncovers a life lived with freedom, liberation, and passion . . . • Co-produced, co-written & directed by Sarah Aspinall; co-written by Jim Barton; starring Lucy Cohu {as older Anais Nin}, Shivani Kapur {as younger Anais Nin}, Alix Wilton Regan, Gary Dunnington {as Henry Miller}, Kim Krizan, Rowan Pelling Amazon Instant Video [2015] promoted as FREE with Amazon Prime DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb

"Henry Miller: Prophet of Desire (Prophet der Lüste)" documentary TV movie [Germany Jan 2017] /tt6471456/

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"Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell" [] Shelly Feldman as Anaïs Nin
David Stallings's existential comedy is one of Fringe 2008 must-sees
http://www.offoffoff.com/theater/2008/anais_nin_goes_to_hell.php

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Anais Nin - Studs Terkel radio interview [Jan 1972]
listen to audio recording of part one [7/2012 upload; 13:25] online at YouTube • part two not found

"Anaïs Nin: Her Diary" - excerpts from Volume 4, read by Anaïs Nin
listen to audio recording [10/2014 upload; 1:23:22] online at YouTube

"Essential Anaïs Nin: Includes Excerpts From Her Diary" [2007] Read by Anaïs Nin 43-minute Caedmon ABR audio CD [2/2007] for $6.37 43-minute Caedmon ABR audio CD [2/2007] for $19.95

"Anaïs Nin" opera by Louis Andriessen [2010] information on Amazon & IMDB is confusing - the DVD contains two films: the opera "Anaïs Nin" by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, which is based on Nin's diaries; and the "Making of . . ." short film "Never A Dull Moment", directed by Carine Bijlsma • Directed by Sieuwert Verster; performed by Nieuw Amsterdams Peil; starring Cristina Zavalloni {as Anais Nin} Attacca color DVD [7/2011] for $16.93 credits at IMDb • official movie site

Works  About  Anaïs  Nin

"Recollections of Anais Nin: By Her Contemporaries" [1996] Edited by Benjamin Franklin V Ohio Univ Press 9x5½ pb [12/96] for $14.50 Ohio Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [12/96] for $19.95

"The Portable Anaïs Nin" [2010] Compiled, introduced & annotated by Benjamin Franklin V, Preface by Paul Herron the 38 selections include: several complete diary passages; works of fiction including her famous prose poem “House of Incest”; a selection from “Under A Glass Bell”; erotica from “Delta of Venus”; the novellas “This Hunger” and “Stella”; her critical works “Realism and Reality” and “On Writing”; and an interview conducted at the height of her fame Kindle Edition from Sky Blue Press [9/2010] for $9.99 Sky Blue Press pb [9/2015] for $19.95

"Writers Between The Covers: The Scandalous Romantic Lives of Legendary Literary Casanovas, Coquettes, and Cads" [2013] by Shannon McKenna Schmidt & Joni Rendon Book describes the tragic, funny, and-or happy romantic lives of literary figures that include: Lord Byron, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Isak Dinesen, Daphne du Maurier, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Anaïs Nin, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edith Wharton, and couples Robert & Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre, and Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas – and many others Kindle Edition from Plume/Penguin [10/2013] for $7.99 Plume 8x5½ pb [10/2013] for $11.13

Image  Gallery

Family & Friends
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was born on 21 February 1903 near Paris, France; she moved to New York City
in 1939 and to Los Angeles (Silver Lake), California in 1955; she died on 14 January 1977 in L.A. at age 73.

father Joaquín Nin y Castellanos [1879-1949]
mother Rose Culmell Nin []
brother Thorvald Nin
brother composer Joaquín Nin-Culmell [1908-2004]

husband Hugh Parker Guiler aka Ian Hugo [1898-1985] - married 1923, widower 1977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hugo

lover Henry Miller [1891-1980] - 1930s in Paris

lover & psychoanalyst Otto Rank [1884-1939] - 1930s in Paris & New York

longtime partner Rupert Pole [1919-2006] - married 1955, annuled 1966

L i n k s
http://thinkingofanaisnin.blogspot.com/ [est. 1995]

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