
Trapeze
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It marks the start of what Nin came to call her "trapeze life," swinging between her longtime husband, Hugh Guiler, in New York and her lover, Pole, in California, a perilous lifestyle she continued until her death in 1977. Today what Nin did seems impossible, and what she sought perhaps was impossible: to find harmony and completeness within a split existence. It is a story of daring and genius, love and pain, largely unknown until now.
Reviews / Votes
"Nin's diaries still challenge and astonish today because she was utterly daring....The unexpurgated diaries illuminate the spectacular process of self-mythology for a courageous wife, lover, and artist....[In Trapeze], striving to reconcile a split existence, Nin finds herself marking down dissatisfactions with each man's shortcomings and tempting fate in thrilling ventures, although she cannot help but behold both with understanding, compassion, and love. Trapezeoffers Nin's solution to such a dilemma: embrace ambivalence. Choose everything, choose both, choose between, and choose all." (World Literature Today) "Trapeze gives us the iconic writer leading a teetering, emotionally jet-fueled existence, torn between her attachment to her husband of decades and her passion for a much younger lover. The intense, intimate portrait of the woman behind the mysterious Nin legend-and all the hunger and charm and deception that comprised this high-wire act of a life-makes addictive reading indeed." "Anais Nin's emotional, erotic circus was not only a trapeze, but also a high-wire act. This carefully edited presentation of previously unpublished material underscores her insatiable search for impossibly perfect life partners. As has long been established, the most memorable character in Nin's writing is Nin herself." "Trapeze gives us Anais Nin at her best-the Nin who probes various facets of love and tries to capture the intricacies of her relationships, who can be ruthlessly critical of others, but who also exposes her own vulnerabilities."More details
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Paul Herron is the founder and editor of Sky Blue Press, which publishes the journal A Cafe in Space and digital editions of the fiction of Anais Nin, as well as a new collection of Nin erotica, Auletris.
Benjamin Franklin V is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He has published widely in early American literature and edits Literary Criticism in Perspective for Camden House. He is co-author of Anais Nin: An Introduction (1979) and is a long-time jazz writer and broadcaster.
Content
- Intro
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Frontispiece
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- 1947 Part Two of My Life
- 1948 La Joie
- 1949 A Typical American Wife
- 1950 A Web of Lies
- 1951 My Unwanted Presence
- 1952 The Tree and the Pillar
- 1953 Desire Will Buy Another Airplane Ticket
- 1954 With Hugo There Is No Relief
- 1955 To Hell With the Laws
- Biographical Notes
- Index
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