Psychoanalysis, punishment, maturity, escapism, sex, obsession. These are the complex themes that交织 in the life of a broken woman, who in many ways is still a girl.

She projects maturity and fullness onto others by tentatively dipping her toe, for the very first time, into the realm of the erotic. However, as she gradually realizes her projection and the internal cinema she has constructed shatters, she begins to grow.

The way the book concludes encapsulates this transformation beautifully. The last paragraph reads: “Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality—to Henry's selfishness, June's love of power, my insatiable creativity which must concern itself with others and cannot be sufficient to itself. I wept because I could not believe anymore and 1 love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”

I have a preference for the uncut diaries, as they allow me to experience more closely the unorganized, writhing daze in which Nin wrote them. This form of writing is highly reflective, and her ability to describe even the most mundane details in such a languid and descriptive manner holds a great allure for me. It is as if she is able to bring the simplest of things to life and make them captivating.

Fred is amazed that Henry is able to love two women at the same time. He says, "He is a great man. There is a lot of space in him, a lot of love. If I loved you, it would be impossible for me to love any other woman." And I thought, "I am like Henry. I can love Hugo, Henry, and June."

Who would have thought that a book classified as erotic literature would emotionally impact me? Well, that is the magic of Anaïs Nin. This book goes beyond conventional erotica; it is a diary of emotions, passion, and self-destruction.

It all begins with Anaïs and Hugo, her husband. Hugo is a banker, which places him in a completely different world from Anaïs. He is a completely pragmatic man who does not see the world with the same intensity as she does and yet loves her unconditionally but does not understand her. From the beginning, we see how she feels dissatisfied in her marriage for this reason, so she cheats on him, and he is the only one in this triangle (or love square) who is not aware of what is happening. Anaïs writes, "I am going to keep this story for when I am older, when he has also liberated his instincts. Telling him the truth about me now would kill him."

This sense of emptiness changes for her when she meets the famous author Henry Miller, and later his wife, June Mansfield. We all know that Henry is a passionate, direct man who is not afraid of the darkness and dirt of life. Henry is violent in his love, in his art, in his way of existing. Anaïs falls in love with him for this reason, and thanks to Henry, she experiences many new things in her sexuality that she would not have otherwise discovered. However, her love destroys her because Henry is an enigma, going from obsession to coldness.

Then there is June Mansfield/Miller, Henry's wife. Which was my favorite part of the book. June is the typical femme fatale. In fact, before marrying Henry, she was an exotic dancer. Since Anaïs sees her, she idealizes her as the most beautiful woman on earth, not only physically but also in her essence. Anaïs also falls in love with June, but at the same time devalues her, saying, "June lacks ideas, her own fantasies. Others provide them to her, whom she inspires with her being. But, what do you want with ideas, fantasies, content, if the box is beautiful and inspiring?" Henry agrees with this perception, who also constantly feels confused by June, seeing her as the only woman capable of destroying him with her manipulations. During the book, we do not know much about June beyond the idealizations of these two writers.

Finally, I also loved how Henry and Anaïs constantly talk about Dostoyevski in their letters because I love Dostoyevsky. He is the reference they share, the writer who best reflects the intensity of their emotions. Anaïs, obsessed with passion and self-destruction, finds in him a model of Russian exaltation, of emotional madness taken to the extreme.

This book could be classified more as an autobiography since it seems to be an extract from Anaïs' diaries. The erotic part is rather limited, but it is so explicit that it still has to be classified as such. However, this book is more focused on the intense world of this writer and how she beautifully writes about the emotions that these love affairs evoke in her, to the point that it almost seems more like a novel.

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