Anais Nin

When Anais Nin met the writer Henry Miller, a man she though of as an intellectual giant, and his beautiful wife June Mansfield, her life was plunged into emotional and sexual turmoil. Her passionate involvement with both of them, which contrasted profoundly with her attachment to her husband Hugo, led to an inner conflict she was unable to resolve without help. Henry and June is the account, taken from her diaries, of this thrilling but impossible tangle of relationships and of Anais Nin's personal and sexual awakening.

Henry and June

Anaïs Nin

An account of Anais Nin's sexual awakening, this book describes her friendship with Henry Miller and his wife, June, and the fiery affair with Henry that liberated her sexually and morally, undermined her idealized marriage, and led her into psychoanalysis

From a Journal of Love : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

Rose Donovan

every art hoe’s shtick— except they can only hope to be half the woman anais is. kind but troubled. also is this why the French are obsessed with psychoanalysis? lmao carla bruni’s family pic etc

saleha

arwen

anaïs nin a écrit un jour que le français était le langage de son cœur, c'est le mien aussi. lire ce journal m'a pris un an, je ne pouvais pas m'arrêter de relire encore et encore les mêmes passages et je pourrais les relire encore mille fois sans m'en lasser. il y a quelque chose d'indescriptible chez anaïs ; son écriture est tellement envoûtante, brute, intemporelle. je n'ai jamais vu quelqu'un qui décrit aussi bien qu'elle ce que c'est d'être humain, de vivre, d'aimer.
ce n'est pas un livre parfait, il est parfois redondant, mais n'est-ce pas le propre d'un journal ?

Ana Hein

This read was very pleasant and controversial, it awakened a passion in me personally to orientate my reading towards journals and personal introspections of authors I am passionate about. It inspires buoyancy, freedom, desire, love in unexpected shapes, seen from different angles. It is pleasant to read if you like to draw inspiration from powerful personalities, through reading. 

Nina Alexandra Bacrau

so crazy reading someone's life through a journal. The gal had countless people after her in 'love'.

Carolina Grajales 

Heather Margaret

Overview: Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, Henry and June is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year - from late 1931 to the end of 1932 - during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. She fell in love with June's beauty and Henry's writing and, soon after June's departure for New York, began a fiery affair with Henry, which liberated her sexually and morally but undermined her marriage and led her into psychoanalysis. One question dominated her thoughts: what would happen when June returned to Paris? That event took place in October 1932, leaving Nin trapped between two loves - Henry and June. Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, this is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening.

Henry and June

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