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Friday, October 29, 2021

Anais Nin's Diary/Autobiography

The edited diaries of Anais Nin were set down spontaneously as natural diaries, but when Nin chose to publish them, she want back and edited and rewrote from the perspective of a later point in time. Although overlooked, Nin's importance is in creating a new hybrid literary form, something between diary and autobiography.

Tristine Rainer, The New Diary, 1978. Anais Nin (1903-1977) a French-Cuban-American novelist and short story writer, is best known for The Diary of Anais Nin, 1966

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