The daughter of Cuban parents, Nin was born in France and had a cosmopolitan upbringing. She was by all accounts a nymphomaniac and had many affairs throughout her life, including with writer Henry Miller, psychoanalyst Otto Rank, and also (by her own account) fucked Gore Vidal as well as her own father. She is most famous perhaps for her published journals, as well as a number of collections of erotica. She also helped Miller edit "Tropic of Cancer". I read several volumes of her journals in college and have been fascinated by her in the years since—a truly fucked up but interesting woman.
She IS Anaïs Nin!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 12, 2024 12:36 AM |
She really was a fascinating, complex person.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 12, 2024 12:49 AM |
Am I mixing her up…. or as an adult did she meet her father in a hotel and have a week long affair with him?
I hope I’m not just imagining this - that would be disturbing.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 12, 2024 12:53 AM |
She was mentally ill - certainly histrionic, if not also borderline and narcissistic. She must have been a great fuck for so many men to have tolerated her and desired her. Perhaps she was not a toxic form of her illnesses and was making the most of her life. But secret polygamy and a mountain of lies. Sheesh. Bad news, if you ask me.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 12, 2024 12:53 AM |
“Anaïs, you make me forget God!” she reports her father crying out as she impaled herself on his throbbing member.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 12, 2024 1:07 AM |
She was so amazing that Cacharel named a perfume after her… twice!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 12, 2024 1:08 AM |
Fred Ward, who played Anaïs Nin's lover in Henry and June, was in Secret Admirer which was a derivative of Cyrano de Bergerac. Eric Porter starred in a 1968 BBC Play of the Month version of Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano himself.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 12, 2024 1:23 AM |
It seems like a lot of men put up with high maintenance women.
If you’ve ever perused a reality show like Love is Blind or something similar, these shrill demanding women always seem to have the best luck with the mens.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 12, 2024 1:32 AM |
Only on DL..
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 12, 2024 1:45 AM |
I am *not* a Ninny.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 12, 2024 1:54 AM |
Jesus. You instantly transported me back to the summer of '84 in NYC, OP.
I was obsessed with her back then. Same with Edie.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 12, 2024 2:14 AM |
Vidal denied the affair. Confessed to being "ensorceled" initially by Nin and ultimately dismissed her as a liar. Vidal also admitted he had dismissed her as an old lady when they met, he was later ashamed of being ageist.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 12, 2024 2:15 AM |
Sedgwick
Nico
Sedgwick
Nico
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 12, 2024 2:16 AM |
I never read Miller or Nin.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 12, 2024 2:16 AM |
[quote] I never read Miller or Nin.
For that you'll get Cancer.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 12, 2024 2:17 AM |
R14 Tropic of Cancer is a fever dream of a novel. Some of the best line writing of all time. No real story. But I remember being enthralled with how alive the writing was.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 12, 2024 2:20 AM |
I thought Nin was deep when I was a freshman. Then I grew up.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 12, 2024 2:21 AM |
Nico, too, R13. I was obsessed with her as well.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 12, 2024 2:28 AM |
Do you read at all, R14?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | February 12, 2024 2:31 AM |
[quote]r8 It seems like a lot of men put up with high maintenance women.
It’s tragic. Especially when you think how noble and utterly selfless most st8 men are.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 12, 2024 2:33 AM |
She hit me in the head with a fondue pot.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 12, 2024 2:43 AM |
R16 same here. It is one of the most mysterious things I've ever read. Very famously censored.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | February 14, 2024 2:45 AM |
R4 nailed it. She was someone to stay away from, I think
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | February 14, 2024 3:14 AM |