Name: Seduction of the Minotaur
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
ISBN: 9780140186086

Anaïs Nin

Lillian has made her escape to the silver lagoons and lush tropical greenery of a beach resort in Mexico. Playing jazz piano at the Black Pearl by night, by day she plays the fugitive, from a silent New York marriage and children and from old Parisian frie

Seduction of the Minotaur

Sabrina D. 

You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz. 

Where she came from only jewels were placed in satin-lined cushioned boxes, but here it was thoughts and memories which the air, the scents, and the music conspired to hypnotize by softness. 

"Seduction of the Minotaur is the fifth and final volume of Anaèis Nin's continuous novel known as Cities of the Interior. First published by Swallow Press in 1961, the story follows the travels of the protagonist Lillian through the tropics to a Mexicancity loosely based on Acapulco, which Nin herself visited in 1947 and described in the fifth volume of her Diary. As Lillian seeks the warmth and sensuality of this lush and intriguing city, she travels inward as well, learning that to free herself she must free the "monster" that has been confined in a labyrinth of her subconscious. This new Swallow Press edition includes an introduction by Anita Jarczok"--

Seduction of the Minotaur

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