[삶의 의미] 보편적인 의미는 없지만 ...
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프랑스 태생의 미국 소설가 아나이스 닌(1903~1977)
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[사람들을 절망하게 만드는 것은 삶 전체에 대한 보편적인 의미를 찾으려 하다가 그것이 부조리하고 비논리적이며 의미가 없다고 말하는 것으로 끝나기 때문입니다. 모두에게 하나의 크고 우주적인 의미가 있는 것이 아니라, 우리 각자가 우리 삶에 부여하는 의미, 개별적인 의미, 개별적인 플롯, 개별 소설, 각 사람을 위한 책 등이 있을 뿐입니다. 완전한 일치를 추구하는 것은 잘못된 것입니다. 자신의 삶에 가능한 한 많은 의미를 부여하는 것이 나에게는 옳은 것 같습니다. 예를 들어, 나는 광신주의와 불의로 가득 찬 어떤 정치 운동에도 관여하지 않지만, 모든 개인 인간 앞에서 민주적이고 인간적으로 행동합니다.]
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What makes people despair is that they try to find a universal meaning to the whole of life, and then end up by saying it is absurd, illogical, and empty of meaning. There is not one big, cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one's life as possible seems right to me. For example, I am not committed to any of the political movements which I find full of fanaticism and injustice, but in the face of each human being, I act democratically and humanly. ~Anaïs Nin
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The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker's own words, covering the time when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. "One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters."—Los Angeles Times"As unique a literary memoir as has been published...lyrical, and singularly potent."—Village VoiceEdited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann.
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ANAÏS NIN (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she was the author of several novels, short stories, critical studies, a collection of essays, nine published volumes of her Diary, and two volumes of erotica, Delta of Venus and Little Birds.
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Publisher : Mariner Books (March 19, 1969)
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Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 0156260255
ISBN-13 : 978-0156260251
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Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she wrote primarily fiction until 1964, when her last novel, Collages, was published. She wrote The House of Incest, a prose-poem (1936), three novellas collected in The Winter of Artifice (1939), short stories collected in Under a Glass Bell (1944), and a five-volume continuous novel consisting of Ladders to Fire (1946), Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), and Seduction of the Minotaur (1961). These novels were collected as Cities of the Interior (1974). She gained commercial and critical success with the publication of the first volume of her diary (1966); to date, fifteen diary volumes have been published. Her most commercially successful books were her erotica published as Delta of Venus (1977) and Little Birds (1979). Today, her books are appearing digitally, most notably with the anthology The Portable Anais Nin (2011).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful scrutiny, a work of artReviewed in the United States on June 27, 2009
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The first of seven volumes that have been produced so far, this is probably the best-known of Anais Nin's diaries. The first three-quarters of it centers largely on her relationship with writer Henry Miller and his wife June. I've never seen the movie "Henry and June", which was adapted from these diaries, but I mean to get to it someday.
Nin, the daughter of Cuban pianist Joaquin Nin and singer Rosa Culmell, started keeping a diary when, as a young girl, she traveled with her mother and brother to New York from Europe after her father abandoned the family for one of his mistresses. On the ship she began a letter to her father describing their experiences, which was never sent and instead marked the beginning of a lifelong project of meticulously documenting her life.
At the beginning of this diary, in 1931, Nin is back in France, where she was born, and has just finished her biography of D.H. Lawrence, whose writing she felt had so profoundly changed her life that she wanted to pay homage to him. She writes:
"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip...and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death."
Soon after this she meets Henry Miller, and the beginning of a relationship that would last decades, long after each of their marriages had ended (and others still lay ahead). They inspired each other in part because their writing was so vastly different: his stark, brutal and crude, hers veiled and baroque, but both probing and sensual in their own fashions.
Towards the end of the diary, in 1933-34, Anais becomes fascinated with psychoanalysis, which as a practice and theory had steadily become more popular in the decades since Freud. It seems a natural progression for a woman who had spent so many years scrutinizing the lives and experiences of everyone around her to finally turn the mirror around on herself, and she does this in a way that is admirable without being punishing or overly neurotic. The way she examines herself is unflinching but not melodramatic:
"My greatest fear is that people will become aware that I am fragile, not a full-blown woman physically, that I am emotionally vulnerable, that I have small [...] like a girl. And so I cover all this up with understanding, wisdom, interest in others, with my mind's agility, with my writing, my reading: I cover the woman up, to reveal only the artist, the confessor, the friend, the mother, the sister."
"I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I see it as a disease, a proliferation as dangerous as cancer. My first concept about people around me was that all of them were coordinated into a WHOLE, whereas I was made up of a multitude of selves, of fragments. I know that I was upset as a child to discover that we had only one life."
Through analysis she also finally faces the deep trauma her father's abandonment had caused and its influence on her adult life. Although they had actually become quite close as adults, she realized that they had forever lost something irretrievable:
"My father comes when I no longer need a father. I am walking into a Coney Island trick house. The ground gives way under my feet. It is the ironies which swallow the ground and leave one dizzy and stranded. Irony of loves never properly timed, of tragedies that should not be tragedies, of passions which miss each other as if aimed by blind men, of blind cruelties and even blinder loves, of incongruities and deceptive fulfillments. Every realization is not a culmination but a delusion. The pattern seems to come to an end and it is only another knot. My father comes when I have gone beyond him; he is given to me when I no longer need him, when I am free of him. In every fulfillment there is a mockery which runs ahead of me like a gust of wind, always ahead."
As this volume ends she has begun her own brief career as an analyst, but soon realizes that she wants to concentrate full-time on her writing. Miller's `Tropic of Cancer', considered his magnus opus and something Nin was deeply involved with (she was Miller's primary muse and editor), has just been accepted for publication, and this inspires her further. She writes intensely and painfully about a pregnancy and stillbirth experience, and makes plans to return to New York to work with Otto Rank, the famed analyst under whom she'd first been a patient, then a student. Volume Two picks up at this point.
I'm not usually quite so verbose with my reviews. I was just very moved by Nin's writing and her way of expressing herself, which could so easily come across as neurotic but never does because she never exudes self-pity or obsesses narcissistically about herself. She just is who she is, and I love the way she doesn't want to miss anything, refuses to draw a box around herself, lives a life outside of conventional norms, and isn't afraid to face her own demons. Or rather, she might be afraid, but does it anyway.
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4.0 out of 5 stars BeautifulReviewed in the United States on October 1, 2020
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Kindle Edition Review: I had no problems with it. It shows the page number which is great.
Book Review: I love how Anaïs Nin analyzes everything deeply. I did not always agree with her, but I loved how she expressed her thoughts and ideas.
She repeated her thoughts or analysis of some of the characters a lot through the book especially Henry Miller, and that made some pages boring. That is the only reason I gave 4 stars not 5. It is a very beautiful diary.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and fascinatingReviewed in the United States on June 12, 2015
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Anias Nin writes beautifully. There may be omissions or bending of truth, but her words will take you on a mesmerizing journey. Her journal is a bit meandering and teasing and, at times, I longed for more details. But there is no doubt that she is a great writer. She writes poetically, finding the words when other writers may falter. She’s an inspiration and fascination. It’s difficult not to fall under her spell and crave more. She was a true free spirit and followed her muse. The facts hardly matter. This first journal contains her friendship with Henry Miller and his wife June, her confusing relationship with her father, her foray into analysis, her insecurity and struggles with writing her first novels, and various other friends and subdued adventures. There are fewer actual details and more of an inner documentation of her emotions and thoughts. At times I wasn’t quite sure what happened, but her words flow on and carry you along. You experience it with her. Highly recommended.
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Daniela Modesto
5.0 out of 5 stars You will fall in love with her writing from page 1Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2021
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No review could possibly do Anais Nin justice, so I won’t try. Each reader experiences her dairy in their own way. I will say this…her descriptive writing moves a reader to their core…I know it has done this for me…a masterpiece…
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and revealingReviewed in the United States on August 20, 2020
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Anais Nin is an honest, thoughtful, and provocative writer.
She gave the commencement speech at Hampshire College in 1972; you might want to listen to that recording to get an idea about her style and insight.
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4.0 out of 5 stars BeautifulReviewed in the United States on May 16, 2011
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Throughout her lifetime, Nin considered her diary to be her closest friend and confident. Through her diary she was able to express many things that she could not possibly say out loud - including events so shocking that they would not be published until after the death of her first husband. While this version of the diary was heavily edited and rewritten by the author prior to publication, what remains is an in-depth look of someone who lived a remarkable life both as an artist and as a woman.
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Margo
4.0 out of 5 stars Read and keep reading!Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2014
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I like this memoir. I read it maybe 45 years ago, and I recommend it to anyone over 50 to consider reading it
more than once through the years.
Our own experiences somehow begin to allow us to understand...as we age.
I will be 78 next month, and will read more and look forward to reading Anais Nin.
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R. Finley
5.0 out of 5 stars I read this when I was 20, read again 42 years later. A lifetime favorite.Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2014
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She has the woman's voice, the inner voice that tells the truth, the real feelings on paper- that we all have, wwtho we never dare to share it. It is not written to be funny, universally truthful, or even wise, as she shows her mistakes in life, her mistakes in love, as well as stunning insights. She stands as a pioneer to proclaim the of the value of a woman's insights and feelings to the literary and artistic movement of her time.
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Cleo
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent copy of iconic bookReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2015
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Excellent as new condition. Very much looking forward to taking this on holiday.
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Mary Gina Machado
2.0 out of 5 stars RepetitiveReviewed in Canada on February 18, 2023
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A Nin goes on and on about everything and especially about how June is such a lier. She never does say what lies June told. Nin is obsessed with Henry Miller and June and others. Nin buys her way to friendships and the needy hang on to her. I skipped through most of this book because it just fails to interest me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars increíblemente dulce y femeninoReviewed in Spain on December 16, 2014
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La autora narra sus experiencias con un lenguaje sensible, descriptivo, y una delicadeza que por momentos acaricia nuestros sentimientos. Sus romances los cuenta con delicadeza, y nos dan ganas de entrar en ellos, de sumergirnos, de soñar por un momento que somos alguno de sus personajes. Ideal para leer pequeños párrafos cuando uno necesita creer en los viejos valores de siempre.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Anais NinReviewed in Canada on March 31, 2022
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