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...newspapers and race and cigarettes lit up and put out, one suspects, is a function of her insecurity as a woman in dealing with a man's world. One wonders about the convolutions and distractions of woman's writing in the thirties and forties. Gertrude Stein, and even Anais Nin. In her next novel, Eudora Welty should imitate the solidity, the involvement with things that matter in One Time. One Place. And she is writing another novel...
...Anais Nin is the great seductress who hates men, the diarist who hates herself, the expatriate turned American who hates America, the writer who hates the intellect. This is not simply confusion, but sadomasochism as well...
...make the effort to enjoy her as she ostensibly seems to enjoy herself, we find quickly that the veneer of joy and self-love is thin. It seems that she maintains the external, self-promoting eye in order to convince herself that she is loveable. With her diary, Anais Nin is incessantly licking the wounds of her self-hate...
...American, and a writer of books, Anais Nin is profoundly anti-intellectual and anti-American...
...charms, and her sexuality, she kept herself from the maturation of an extraordinary birthright. Further, the question is no longer whether or not she is responsible to the personnages in her diary. Her character portraits are valuable so long as her character warp is weighed into the equation. Anais Nin has been washing her dirty lingerie out in public now for four volumes. She threatens a fifth. She should spare us the embarrassment...