Review of Noel Riley Fitch’s ‘Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin’
ISBN 9780316284318

I don’t often abandon a book halfway through, but I just couldn’t finish this. It is basically a running tally of who Anais Nin had sex with. Her early childhood and the obvious sexual abuse by her father was informative, but I was hoping for more on her writing and growth as a writer. I read her ‘D.H.Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study’ , and was always a fan of her ‘Letter to the Collector’. Both are good work. I wanted to better understand this woman. This book didn’t do that for me.

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