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9780804009812 Academic Inspection Copy

Waste of Timelessness and Other Early Stories

  • ISBN-13: 9780804009812
  • Publisher: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Anais Nin, Introduction by Allison Pease
  • Price: AUD $39.99
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  • Local release date: 30/05/2005
  • Format: Paperback 117 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literary essays [DNF]
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These stories precede all of Nin's published work to date. In them are many sources of the more mature work that collectors and growing writers can appreciate. Written when Anais Nin was in her twenties and living in Louveciennes, France, these stories contain many elements that will delight her readers: details remembered from childhood, of life in Paris, the cafes, theatres; characters including dancers, artists, writers, women who devote themselves to their work and visions as well as romance, strangers met in the night; themes such as the scruples of lovers, the search for brilliant, imaginative living; the writer's experimentation with exotic words like "sybaritic" and "violaceous". In the craft of these stories readers are treated to a deft sense of humor, ironic wit, much conversation as well as ecstatic prose, and surprise endings. Throughout all, the Nin personality shines, a wonderful mixture of feeling and rationality, of vulnerability and strength.
Anais Nin (1903-1977) is an iconic literary figure and one of the most notable experimental writers of the twentieth century. As one of the first women to explore female erotica, Nin revealed the inner desires of her characters in a way that made her works a touchstone for later feminist writers. Swallow Press is the premier US publisher of books by and about Nin. Allison Pease is the author of Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity and Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom. She is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to To the Lighthouse.
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