![]() ![]() The fashion of hating her is as lame as the knee-jerk love of Wilco. “Introspection does not need to be a still life. To end with one of my favourite quotes from this volume: I still can’t quite wrap my head around the intensity of this unconventional relationship.Ī couple of parts were not very pleasant to read but I do respect her frankness and willingness to share all parts of her life, pleasant or not. The most interesting part of the book for me was Nin’s fascinatingly-weird relationship with Henry and June Miller. Reading her diary definitely caused me to be reflective. ![]() Her adeptness at describing relationships and personality is wonderful. Nin’s writing style, as always, is very elegant, lyrical and articulate. We enter the circles she moved about in, including lots of famous literary people and doctors.It was also interesting to find out how D.H. In Nin’s world we enter the world of the Bohemian artist in Paris, where everyone and everything can be a subject. This is a flawed woman who recognizes her imperfections but does not apologize for them. This is a woman who really lived, who really experienced life, who aimed to fully understand human relationships, both edifying and destructive ones. Each diary entry is so candid and shows her deeply introspective and artistic nature.įor the most part I’d say nothing truly remarkable happens in the diary yet Nin is the kind of person who could turn a normal, everyday event into something magical and profound. ![]() What a diary! Definitely nothing like any diary I’ve ever read or written. ![]()
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