Ruth's Reviews > Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
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Anais's diaries are not for everyone they are hyper sexual with most of human taboos broken. But they are not pornographic. There are very few saucy, graphic descriptions she mostly focuses on the emotional and psychological sides of her actions. Breaking down her behavior and that of her partners into hundreds observations of their nature.
Reading her diaries is like watching the ocean - everything is constantly in movement, everything is changing. Her endless love on one page turns into boredom on the next. For me it was illuminating - we are so used to the ideal of being true and consistent with our emotions and opinions once they are formed and articulated that we often ignore their true nature - one of fluidity and change. We are not machines that run one program for all eternity.
Anais's diaries make me want to live, to feel, to be completely transparent and honest with myself, not be astranged from any part in me no matter how much the world might disapprove of that part.
How lucky it is that she had the courage (and was narcissistic enough) to share her deepest self with us.
Reading her diaries is like watching the ocean - everything is constantly in movement, everything is changing. Her endless love on one page turns into boredom on the next. For me it was illuminating - we are so used to the ideal of being true and consistent with our emotions and opinions once they are formed and articulated that we often ignore their true nature - one of fluidity and change. We are not machines that run one program for all eternity.
Anais's diaries make me want to live, to feel, to be completely transparent and honest with myself, not be astranged from any part in me no matter how much the world might disapprove of that part.
How lucky it is that she had the courage (and was narcissistic enough) to share her deepest self with us.
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April 5, 2021
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April 5, 2021
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April 5, 2021
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"I had such glorious plans for Easter break and a long list of books to get through but when it came to it I dropped them all for Anais and I can't get enough of her.
Sensuality, self reflection, observations of others, sexuality and terrifying honesty. Her diaries teach me so much."
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Sensuality, self reflection, observations of others, sexuality and terrifying honesty. Her diaries teach me so much."
April 10, 2021
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Finished Reading