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the beginning of a sensual passion and an intellectual connection is often thwarting, Having first read this book at the age of, I have to say that my perspective on ityears later is dramatically different.
I did not experience the profound liberation that I did when reading Henry amp June the second time around, I once considered Nin to be a strong, sexually heroic figure, but now my opinion is that, during this time of her life, she was mostly confused, selfdestructive and pawned her behavior off on the idea of naivity.
Don't get me wrong, I feel that the love she experienced for Henry Miller was beautiful, although unfortunately damaging to herself and to the people around her.
I also feel that she was indeed naive and that many of her experiences were necessary for personal growth, but she was also fully aware of her behavior and the effects of it.
Perhaps myyear old self is not able to relate to her thoughts, emotions amp behaviors on the same level as myyear old self was as an effect of my own sexual experiences and life lessons learned from mistakes made.
Hopefully this means I am less confused now than I wasyears ago, Side note: If it is true that our cells completely regenerate everyyears, creating a new physical self, then this could be an epic moment for me.
I will always hold Nin in high regard and I still want to read the remaining volumes of her unexpurgated diaries to see how she progresses or regresses.
If anything, the unbelievably gorgeous tone of her writing is well worth the time spent reading, I can't get enough of her, She is such a complex woman, I identify with so much of her intelect, with her hunger for love and with her powerfully erotic self, every page I read I find something else that applies so well to my life in this moment, my relationships, that it scares me.
Reading her diaries is a very personal experience for me,

LATER EDIT: I have very strong opinions on what a

woman should be like, and I strive to live up to them.
More than being a way in which I think the "world" should live, it's a way in which I want to live.
Anais is part of one of my favorite literary powercouples HenryAnais, HeideggerHannah, and I identify with her passion for her relationship and with the strength of her own emotions, for how she feels desperately torn between her sensitive heart and her concretelike intellect.
I have fallen in love with her whilst reading what she has written about sex how she discovered it and what it meant for her to be a powerfully erotic woman, more like an animal than a human being, following her instinct and instilling deathbearing passions in the men of her life.
I discovered her when I was, and I believe that was just on time, as it gave me insight into who I wanted to be.


Her diaries show a very strong and intelligent woman, but they also show she was emotionally weak, dependent on men, desiring power and dominance outwardly, while secretly dealing with being sexually submissive.
That is a very fine line to walk and it takes a lot of introspection to be able to never mix the two.
I am not just reading her diaries I am studying them, You can live a much better life if you understand the mistakes of someone who was talented enough to put them on paper.
How does one review published diaries According to literary merit Though Anais Nin is a beautiful, insightful writer, I feel strange talking about her "writing style" when discussing a section of her journal.
What I will talk about instead is the way that books often come into your life at a time when you need them.
It happened to me once withwhen I needed to crystalize exactly why writing was so important to me, then again with Everything is Illuminated when I needed to be encouraged back into writing after I'd stopped for a long time.


I was inspired to walk into a bookstore and purchase Henry and June a week or two ago, because I've been doing a lot of selfexamination recently, and having heard a lot about Anais Nin I thought her journals would be the best thing to accompany me on the beginning of my journey.
Originally, I'd wanted a full volume of her journals, but everything was sold out, so I ended up buying Henry and June.
. . and since I'd never read her before, I thought it would be a good introduction,

I am so grateful that this book came into my life when it did, All I knew about Nin before reading it had to do with the sex she had, People love to sensationalize, and so when one hears the name, Anais Nin, one automatically thinks "sexual awakening", "deviance", "erotica.
" What amazed me was how much we had in common outside of that the insecurities, the way in which we see men and the world, the positive and negative aspects of a Catholic upbringing, and most importantly: the ongoing battle between loving submission and intellectual assertiveness how difficult it is to be a strong woman while still holding on to one's emotional vulnerability.
I learned so much from her insights, . . and while I won't be having three or four lovers any time soon heh, I appreciate the spirit of adventure with which she tried to live her life.
It's something I hope to emulate in my own way,
I cried wept as I read the last paragraph of Henry and June, because it magically captured exactly where I am at this moment in my life:

"Last night, I wept.
I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful, I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith, I wept because my eyes were opened to reality to Henry's selfishness, June's love of power, my insatiable creativity which must concern itself with others and cannot be sufficient to itself.
I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe, I can still love passionately without believing, That means I love humanly, I wept because from now on I will weep less, I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence, "

How did she know
Lavish, sexy, captivating, . . I could go on throwing out adjectives all day, without doing proper justice to how poetic and compelling this book is.
Nins descriptions are like being wrapped in satin,

The books central problem, unfortunately, is the same thing that makes it great in the first place: its real.
Nins words come from an honest, uncensored place deep inside herself, This makes it a fascinating read, but also a frustrating one, Theres no real storyline there are no setpieces to break up the narrative, Nin is confused and indecisive, Her feelings for Henry and the other men in her life oscillate wildly, She loves him! She doesnt love him at all! She wants to leave him! She cant imagine her life without him! Its emotionally overwrought stuff and, for the reader, deeply tiring.


However, despite being a tough read, its definitely worth persevering with, A brutally frank excerpt from her diary, Anaïs Nin era o que se pode chamar de uma mulher emocionalmente instável, inconstante e demasiado intensa, carente e insegura, mas ao mesmo tempo um espírito livre e curioso que, ao longo deste diário íntimo, se descobre e redescobre sob o ponto de vista sexual e erótico, através das relações que mantém com vários homens para além do marido e também com uma mulher.


Henry amp June são Henry Miller e a respectiva mulher June, Anaïs relacionarseà com ambos, sendo que estes têm, digamos assim, um papel central na obra, o que justifica o título.
A relação com o escritor Henry Miller pareceme ser a mais marcante de todas, na verdade,

Se estão neste momento a pensar que este livro se trata de um diário marcadamente sexual desenganemse porque também nos é dado a conhecer todo o enquadramento emocional de Anaïs, sobretudo em virtude das visitas que ela faz ao psicanalista e que são abordadas a partir de determinada altura na obra.


O diário mantém um fio condutor interessante e, a meu ver, constante sem ser monótono, já que se foca marcadamente na intimidade de Anaïs e no turbilhão de emoções que a acompanham.
E talvez por isso o estilo de escrita esteja longe de ser superficial, . . !

E sim gostei do que li, Tendo em atenção o tema, achei o livro bonito, Bem escrito. E em momento algum tive vontade de o deixar a meio, . . ! Talvez também porque, de alguma forma, me revi na intensidade emocional por vezes em demasia com que Anaïs Nin vive tudo.
It seems almost vulgar to hand out to a published journal, especially Nin's,
As tends to be the case with journals you cannot ever get enough of indulging in your own thoughts, dreams, fears and daily struggles for as long as you live.
While your selfabsorbed musings are, harshly enough, far less interesting for everyone else,

Nin wrote dozens of journals, Henry and June covers the ones in which she, in her early thirties, lived outside of Paris with her husband, Hugo, and felt unsatisfied with her life.
Although Hugo, as a banker, could afford all the luxuries she wished for, she longed for excitement, selfexploration and sexual awakening.
When she came across writer Henry Miller and, later, his wife June Mansfield, she was instantly drawn to the couple.


Nin's writings on her obsession with both Miller and Mansfield are, because of her intense emotions and exquisite writing, mostly a joy to read.
Henry and June contains many big fat chunks of pure poetry, I found myself eagerly highlighting parts that I thought were moving, And kept falling in love with the way Nin, but Miller too, poured their thoughts into words, When Nin reads Miller from her own notes, she later writes down his response in her journal: "I could only write like that, with imaginative intensity, because I had not lived out what I was writing about, that the living out kills the imagination and the intensity, as happens to him.
" And when she, during their slightly awkward rendezvous, puts down in words how passionately she feels about Millers wife: "You are like me, wishing for a perfect moment, but nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldy way.
Neither of us can say just the right thing, We are overwhelmed. Let us be overwhelmed. "

How I would have gushed about Henry and June as a teenager, But even now, despite Nin's selfindulgence and continued confused musings which can become a bit tedious, the strength of words and how they can outrival deeds in depth and intensity, is awe inspiring.
I think Hugo realizes this when he states that he is afraid to lose Nin to Miller "for you fall in love with people's minds" .
and that's exactly it! Of course she does, is there any other way

Yet, for me as a reader, Henry and June also became a little tiresome after a while.
While Nin tirelessly philosophizes about her affairs and keeps formulating similar answers to her own questions, and her affairs vaguely drag on and play out, her everyday concerns began to strike me as repetitive and dull criticism that is by no means fair, since this is, after all, an actual journal and not a fancily plotted adventure romance.

Although I admired and loved her poetic language, my own, probably more nononsense, approach to life sometimes clashed with hers.
I therefore could never really relate to her, finding her overly dramatic and calculating, For example, after Mansfield and Nin fitted clothes together and Nin later, in a conversation with Miller, comments on how Mansfield liked her underwear, Miller replies: "What comes to mind when you say this is how did June know that you wore such underclothing" I Nin said: "Don't you think I am trying to make it all more innocent than it was, but at the same time, don't go so directly at ideas like that or you'll never quite get the truth.
"
Couldn't she have, every now and then, simply replied something without that whiff of pretension Something like: "A dirty mind is a joy forever Henry, but June and I just fitted clothes together the other day.
"

Still, secretly I'm glad that she did not,

Anais Nin has been an idol of mine for a long time, There are few women of literary stature which I find relatable, As a young reader I cherished Judy Bloom, As an adult woman, I was thrilled to read Anais Nin, Intelligent, witty and sexually provocative,

I admire her supreme linguistic talent, Her writing, in whtever form, always maintains a powerful poetic lexicon, She made love most fervently when she held the pen in her hand, This excerpt from her personal journal is so very intimate, flux with sexuality, but you feel her grace and delicate vulnerability.
Something deeply personal left for us readers,

I also admire Nin because she was an uninhibited sexual being long before it was socially acceptable, Is it even acceptable today "Sensuality is a secret power in my body, someday it will show, healthy and ample.
Wait a while. " Her thoughts and feelings are confident as she expresses herself, an empowering embodiment of feminism even by today's standards, Her confidence becomes emboldened with lovers,

Nin is the epitome of unbridled lust for life,


I love this book more than I can say, I read the entire book from cover to cover in my early twenties and recently have been slowly going back through it with a pencil something I've never dared do to a book before.


It's not a book for everybody and I can totally understand why many people don't enjoy it, I certainly don't agree with everything Anais says or does, she definitely wallows in selfpity and selfrighteousness, and she is frequently a walking contradiction to herself, but it is a journal after all and I kind of always thought that is what journals were for.


To me this book was/is completely, utterly, beautiful, Her word flow, creativity, and sensuality completely enthralled me, I loved reading her view of the world, I loved her ideas, and her many thoughtful questions, She had a very raw and open way of describing things that allowed me to relate to her pain, confusion, lonliness, frustrations, desires, and ultimate growth.
She put things in to words for me that I've never been able to describe before, I've yet to read a better book about what it actually feels like to be in love with more than one person and the emotional conflicts that result.
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