Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June Miller's return to Paris dominates her thoughts.
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Anais Nin (1903-1977) was a French-born author of Catalan, Cuban and Danish descent. She became famous for her erotica, as well as for her published diaries, which span more than sixty years, beginning when she was eleven years old and ending shortly before her death.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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This was the first Anais Nin book I ever read and I was quite blown away by it. It sparked a deep interest in Nin's writing which I still feel, over ten years after having read "Henry and June" for the first time. This book traces Nin's sexual awakening as well as her discovery of the joy of living and writing in Paris in the early 1930s, and is written in an intimate, captivating and erotic tone - her descriptions of sexual desire are deeply affecting. Nin's style is not for everyone, but I can guarantee that "Henry and June" will be unlike anything else you've ever read.
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I thought this was an excellent book.
Adapted from Anais's own journals, it follows her affair with the writer Henry Miller, and also her infatuation with his wife June.
Adapted from Anais's own journals, it follows her affair with the writer Henry Miller, and also her infatuation with his wife June.
It was a wonderful insight into the more sensitive and quite vunerable aspects of Anais personality, written with such genuine feeling and great frankness, that it is lovely to be able to clearly define her different moods.
She describes her characters with fantastic skill and great care it would seem, so that early on within the book you have clear pictures and insight into each one.
This book literally oozes feminine charm and is
one of those books that you never want to put down, in my opinion one of her best works, a definite must for any Anais fan, and an ideal book to start with if you have never read anything by Anais Nin before.
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Henry and June is an assemblage from the diaries of Anaïs Nin, who had an affair with Henry Miller in 1931-2. As it begins, Nin has just written a piece on Lawrence's Chatterley, appropriately since Henry and June is explicitly erotic. Nin was married at the time, and she writes: 'The liberty which I have given myself in Hugo's name [her husband], like a gift from him, only increases the richness and potency of my love for him. Amorality, or a more complicated morality, aims at the ultimate loyalty and overlooks the immediate and literal one.' Considerations of loyalty, though, soon get ditched as Nin and Henry Miller fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Nin also makes fresh conquests, including her psychoanalyst. And the tale is made all the spicier by her attraction to June, Henry's temporarily absent wife. If this were a contemporary novel, it would risk falling flat, a tale of perversion from which today's sexual mores would have removed all the courage. But that it is drawn from Nin's own testimony and that it belongs to the 1930s, a time when female sexuality was still essentially taboo, makes it an extraordinary document. At the same time, it is worth noting that because it is not a novel, Henry and June does not read like one, missing the character development, plotting, and context that makes the reader turn the pages of a piece of fiction. Indeed, while Nin's confessions are interesting to consider, they eventually get repetitive, and even her daring eroticism ceases to surprise in the end.
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moderately interesting, for a diary
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moderately interesting, for a diary
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I first read this book several years ago, and I've reread it many times since then and bought copies for some people close to me. I identify very much with Anais in this book. Read more
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