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Article: Fire: From "A Journal of Love," the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1937.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- July 17, 1995
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Harcourt. 434pp. $25.00.
Reviewed by Melissa Knox Assistant professor of English Literature St. Peter's College; author "Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide."
Anais Nin grandly claimed: "Like Oscar Wilde, I put ... my genius into my life.... I play a thousand roles." Sharing Wilde's gift for self-promotion, though not his talent for self-analysis or self-exposure, she did indeed make herself into a strangely enduring cultural icon. Obscure articles she wrote and odd novels she published on a printing press purchased for that purpose, have recently been reissued. Two biographies have appeared in the last two years, the latest being Deidre Bair's knowing and ...