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WHILE ANAIS NIN concentrated on the art of fiction, Henry Miller tussled with his suspicion that her art was too often the artifice of fiction. Nin operated on an emotional plane where she tried to sketch the world through people's fantasies about it, instead of through physical reality. By delineating her characters in the hue of their own dreams and flights or imagination--with barely a hint at the link to actual experience--she hoped to distill the purest state of love, or fear, or aloneness from them. By concentrating on private mental worlds--which Nin called "cities...
Henry Miller thrived on external realities and his novels revelled in the physical. (Which is not to say the critics took to him right off, either: Nin relates that Cyril Connolly admired him as a man of the street--while lamenting that his streets were parisian and planted with bordellos, in the same breath.) If Miller reacted cagily to her novelistic style, Anais's diary reveals that their interests weren't always opposite. Here she records life in the same raw state that Miller aimed to work with, and fills the gap he disparaged in Tropic of Cancer...
...during the reforms of the 1950s. Among the casualties of the resultant purges have been younger party and government officials who argued for more liberal reforms, not less, as the answer to Yugoslavia's problems. Over the past month, liberal editors have been ousted at the weekly newsmagazine NIN and the Belgrade daily Politika; the editor of the popular evening paper...
...reading in this Spring's poetry informals series. Robert Ullian, who runs a prose workshop at South House and who is most recently published in this month's Esquire (an antiwar article about dog food), and Lewis Sckolnick, a Cambridge poet who has studied with James Dickey and Anais Nin, will read from their work tonight at 8 p.m. in the Advocate House, 21 South Street...
...when a person is merely writing about his personal experience in a diary he knows will be read during his lifetime, the result should be approached with great suspicion. Consciously or unconsciously, he has some self-serving angle which vitiates any good points the dairy may have. Anais Nin gives the impression that she has affairs with famous men just so she can write them in her diary. David Lilienthal kept fascinating and informative journals when he was a young, obscure lawyer, but once he became famous and knew that his journals would be published in his lifetime, they took...