pFor many years the name Anaïs Nin was associated mostly with the avant-garde and the literary underground. During the liberated 1960s she became widely recognized as a daring and innovative artist. Her work, at once familiar and exotic, is today considered among the important achievements of twentieth-century literature. /p pThis historic audio was recorded in 1972 at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center in New York City, where Anaïs Nin read excerpts from her diary, which she began in 1914 at the age of eleven. After her recital, she answered questions from her audience. /p
Author
French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's voyage of self-discovery. "It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all." (from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. I, 1966) Anaïs Nin was largely ignored until the 1960s. Today she is regarded as one of the leading female writers of the 20th century and a source of inspiration for women challenging conventionally defined gender roles.
