[MD] Henry Miller & Anaïs Nin

[Jan Anders Andersson]

Ant

I don’t believe in resurrection in the traditional way, so, living a life without knowing Anaïs Nin deserves another life to correct that mistake.

She are the better I think. Miller writes better drama but Nin is the one who knows the human soul and the female patterns more intense.
Miller is the better novelist. Nin published her diaries incomplete, because she didn’t want her husband to know what really happened between her and Miller. In fact she was working with two versions, one that her husband could read and one that was secret, but not for Henry…

So, reading her serie of Diaries, is a marvelous adventure, until you realize that there was just so much more. But you have to read the original story first to appreciate the secrets. The secret diaries are still under process, I think there are four published yet and more to come. Those of us on earth that want to get the whole story have to be patient and get a long life.

A good way to start I think is with Diaries, Volume I, or, with ”A casebook on Anaïs Nin” by Robert Zaller. It is published in 1974 so Zaller didn’t know anything about her secret parts yet…:-) 
Nin died in 1977. The secret diaries was published by her wlll, after her husband died 1985, beginning with ”Henry and June”.

Best wishes

Jan-Anders


8 okt 2014 x kl. 02:11 skrev Ant McWatt <antmcwatt at hotmail.co.uk>:

> Jan Anders,
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> What do you make of Anaïs Nin?  Good as Miller?  Better or just "different"?
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> Being another reader of Miller's 'Big Sur' (again thanks to Dan's recent recommendation), I was wondering if Nin was worth reading too...  
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> Ant
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> Jan Anders Andersson wrote October 2nd:
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> I am halfway through ”The Rosy Crucifixion” which I think is one of the projects Miller was working on at Big Sur. There are some quite nice passages here and there. I have also read almost everything by Henry’s beloved mistress, Anaïs Nin.
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