The Mystic of Sex and Other Writings

by Nin, Anais; Stuhlmann, Gunther

• ISBN13: 9780884963912
• ISBN10: 0884963918
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-05-01
• Publisher: Capra Pr

Summary

This book includes short essays spanning a period of forty years and illustrates the variety of styles and concerns which made Anais Nin one of the most influential writers of her century.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
The Mystic of Sex - A first look at D.H. Lawrence	p. 13
Realism and Reality (1946)	p. 23
On Writing (1947)	p. 32
The Writer and the Symbols	p. 45
Murder on the Place du Tertre	p. 59
"The White Blackbird"	p. 63
The First Modern Woman - Lou Andreas-Salome	p. 67
The Relevance of Dr. Otto Rank	p. 71
The Writer and the Unconscious - A Preface to Anna Kavan's Ice	p. 76
The Mission of the Poet - A Preface to Rising Tides	p. 79
The Energy of Fire - A Preface to Marcel Moreau's Livre Ivre	p. 83
The Writing of Women	p. 86
The Little Girl in Yellow	p. 88
Woman of New York	p. 90
The New Woman	p. 95
What I Would Have Liked to Have Been	p. 105
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