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The Wild, Impassioned World of Anaïs Nin’s Diaries
“Femme fatale” is a French term meaning, literally, “deadly woman.” In my view, a femme fatale is a woman who has gone through hell. Perhaps she harbors a secret pain or experienced a traumatic childhood loss. As a result, she has become cynical and dangerous or has, at the very least, garnered a reputation for danger. Here I take an ironic and whimsical approach to the subject, but Nin seems to have, in many ways, truly filled the bill.
A sensitive Spanish girl, Anaïs Nin was abused and abandoned by her philandering father who ran off with one of his rich music students. Nin’s devastated mother responded by bringing little Anaïs and her two brothers to America, though while on the boat Anaïs started composing a letter to lure her father back to his family. This letter was the first entry in what became her diary–an idealized picture of her life over which she labored for 63 years, a series of books that eventually made her famous.
Little Anaïs grew up and tried, really tried to be a good wife to her doting banker husband, Hugh, but an existential depression had already set in. The abandonment by her father was something from which she could never quite recover and her
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The Diary enterprise Anaïs Nin
Book by Anaïs Nin
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33. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1974)
Rippl, Gabriele. "33. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1974)". Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction, edited by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 1750-1761. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279818-144
Rippl, G. (2019). 33. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1974). In M. Wagner-Egelhaaf (Ed.), Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction (pp. 1750-1761). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279818-144
Rippl, G. 2019. 33. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1974). In: Wagner-Egelhaaf, M. ed. Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 1750-1761. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279818-144
Rippl, Gabriele. "33. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1974)" In Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction edited by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, 1750-1761. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279818-144
Rippl G. 33. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1974). In: Wagner-Egelhaaf M (ed.) Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter; 2019. p.1750-1761. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279818-144
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