Anais Nin

Anais Nin

Anais Nin was a passionate woman, not only in her works but also in her life. The fact that she lived life to the
fullest is what made her books so intriguing. Although her diaries were a chronicle of her experience, her fiction
showed the reader sides of her while displaying everyone's innermost desires. In her own words Nin says, "the role
of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say" (Rollins), and she does exactly that.
For this reason her works take one on a journey through one's soul and allows the pondering which may never have
been considered. This feeling of self discovery is quite powerful and erotic; the enpowerment supplies a feeling of
utter enjoyment. This is why Anais Nin's books are ageless, and they are impossible to parallel or surpass.
Though many author's draw their story ideas from life experiences. Anais takes most directly in order to make them
pure and unclouded by the imagination. This is why her favorite method of writing was the use of her actual diaries.
She wrote of her many love affairs and personal traumas in order to educate the reader as well as to examine her true
self. For it is known that one person could not experience all that is possible, and therefore one must learn from
others mistakes as well as their own.
Nin is greatly renown for her diaries, especially for her famous letters of her affair with Henry Miller . This later
amounted to a movie based on the relationship "Henry and...

Anais Nin

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