Mirages The Unexpurgated Diary Of Anas Nin 19391947 Kindle Edition 2013 Anas Nin by Anaïs Nin, Kim Krizan (intro.), Paul Herron (editor & Preface) instant download after payment.

In the middle looms a period Nin describes as “hell,” during which she experiences a kind of erotic madness, a delirium that fuels her search for love. As a child suffering abandonment by her father, Anaïs wrote, “Close your eyes to the ugly things,” and, against a horrifying backdrop of war and death, Nin combats the world’s darkness with her own search for light.

Mirages collects, for the first time, the story that was cut from all of Nin’s other published diaries, particularly volumes 3 and 4 of "The Diary of Anaïs Nin", which cover the same time period. It is the long-awaited successor to the previous unexpurgated diaries "Henry and June, Incest, Fire, and Nearer the Moon".

"Mirages" answers the questions Nin readers have been asking for decades: What led to the demise of Nin’s love affair with Henry Miller? Just how troubled was her marriage to Hugh Guiler? What is the story behind Nin’s “children,” the effeminate young men she seemed to collect at will?

"Mirages" is a deeply personal story of heartbreak, despair, desperation, carnage, and deep mourning, but it is also one of courage, persistence, evolution, and redemption that reaches beyond the personal to the universal.