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Cities of the Interior [Paperback]

Anais Nin (Author)

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  • Paperback: 609 pages
  • Publisher: Ohio University Press; First Thus edition (31 Dec 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0804006660
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804006668
  • Product Dimensions: 14.1 x 3.2 x 21.6 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,464,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Five interconnected Symbolist and modernist novels in which the inner worlds and lives of three women, Lillian, Djuna, and Sabina, and the relationships they influence are meticulously explored and celebrated.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Look into your lovers' hearts... 7 July 1998
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Though any of the five mini masterpieces that constitute this cyclical novel ("Ladders to Fire", "Children of the Albatross", "The Four-Chambered Heart", "A Spy in the House of Love", and "Seduction of the Minotaur") stand on their own as seperate and equally moving novels, I'm finding it difficult to describe the importance "Cities of the Interior" has held in my (and countless others') heart since my first reading of it.

The narcisism of which Anais Nin has been continually accused could be found here in "Cities of the Interior" during the most cursory of surface-readings (I suppose the same could be said of any writer who has been published to a mass market?) but, it is precisely her singular ability to delve into the depths of her most secret heart that allows her to reveal the core motivations for even the smallest of sensual gestures of her literary characterisations.

These revelations, couched in some of the most memorable and intimate prose you're ever likely to read, are the keys that can unlock the restrictive bonds we all place on our relationships with those closest to us, and perhaps more importanly, the restrictions that keep those with whom we SHOULD be close at arms-length.

This universal gift of empathy and understanding of the geography of the heart is the reason I come back to Ms. Nin's work again and again. What an appropriate title for a timeless epic that has the ability to polish your inner life to a bright glow.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars What a Grand Description of People and their Motivations 2 Jan 2008
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This book differs greatly from her better known Little Birds and Delta of Venus. The characters Are The Story. It is rich in description, and the quirks and strivings of each persona is so minutely described, that it rings true these many decades later. I am sure a person in the book will remind you of someone you know.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Art, Ahead of its Time 22 Mar 2011
By David R. Ingham - Published on Amazon.com
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Let me quote from a letter about Spy in the Hose of Love by Felix Pollak that the author included in her published diary:
"This novel's whole theme must be anathema in a country that, despite its hectic overcompensations, is still laboring under the Puritan strain; for even in the sexiest novels produced here, sex is always treated functionally; a recurrent need leading to recurrent acts, to concessions, whether deplored or affirmed, to natural functions that must be fulfilled so that they can be forgotten and make room for higher things. While in your books, and most clearly in Spy, sex is exposed as the ever present life force, the life of the senses as all-pervading. Eros, sensuality are shown as the spark plugs that set the whole machinery in motion, as the source, the spring, the key, the Mother in the Goethe sense. Unity in manifoldness, no tortuous and artificial duality, no Christian rift between mind and body, no sterile divorce of emotion from reason, but emotion and reason inseparably mated and molded together as effect and cause; instincts, drives seen as what they are: the wire pullers of even the most rational thought processes. The tremendous hidden portion of the tiny iceberg visible above the waters."

This above author sees clearly why these books were not popular when first published. They are written from a fusion of literature with psychoanalysis that did not begin to reach America until the 1960s. Consciousness is only a small human addition to a predominantly mammalian mind. Anais was faithful to pure art and to the future.
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