Cities of the Interior
Cities of the Interior is a novel sequence published in one volume containing the five books of Anaïs Nin's "continuous novel": Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love and Seduction of the Minotaur. This combined volume was first published, by the author, in 1959. Its central figures are three women resembling different aspects of the author, and in some superficial ways June Miller. In some of the books they interact with each other, with a painter resembling Henry Miller and with South Americans resembling her friend, the Peruvian radical Gonzalo Moré, and his wife Helba. Most of the content is taken from her diaries, polished and thinly disguised.
It was followed by her last novel, Collages.
Gore Vidal was impressed by both Ladders to Fire and Children of the Albatross, and played a role in their publication.[1]
References
- ^ Dick, Bernard F. (Winter 1978). "Anaïs Nin and Gore Vidal: A Study in Literary Incompatibility". Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. 11 (2): 153–162. JSTOR 24780323.
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- House of Incest (1936)
- Winter of Artifice (1939)
- Cities of the Interior
- Ladders to Fire
- Children of the Albatross
- The Four-Chambered Heart
- A Spy in the House of Love
- Seduction of the Minotaur
- Collages (1964)
- The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin (1978–1985)
- The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1966–1977)
- Henry and June: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1986)
- A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1987)
- Incest: From a Journal of Love (1992)
- Fire: From a Journal of Love (1995)
- Nearer the Moon: From A Journal of Love (1996)
- Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947 (2013)
- Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955 (2017)
- Under a Glass Bell (1944)
- Waste of Timelessness: And Other Early Stories (1977)
- Delta of Venus (1977)
- Little Birds (1979)
- Auletris (2016)
- D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study (1932)
- The Novel of the Future (1968)
- In Favor of the Sensitive Man (1976)
- Hugh Parker Guiler (husband)
- Rupert Pole (second husband)
- Joaquín Nin (father)
- Joaquín Nin-Culmell (brother)
- Henry Miller
- Henry & June (1990 film)
- Delta of Venus (1994 film)
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