Reading Anaïs Nin

Laboratory of the Soul and Body

von Yuko Yaguchi

158 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume aims to reread, reevaluate, and recreate Anaïs Nin as a writer. In so doing, it draws on the wealth of Japanese critique of Nin, notable for its distinctive tendency to approach both her life and work with a non-judgmental attitude. The study focuses on Nin in the 1930s when she lived in Paris, her birthplace and "second home," in Gertrude Stein's terminology, where she experienced numerous transformative encounters and underwent a radical process of becoming-a Deleuzean concept which plays a pivotal role in this discussion of Nin. While situating Nin within the vibrant cultural and historical context of Paris in the 1930s-one of the most magnetic cities and eras, respectively-the book reads Nin's text and Nin as text minutely, and presents her as an avant-garde experimentalist as a writer, person, and woman.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturtheorie
• ISBN: 9781041241591
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)