{"id":42375,"date":"2019-10-30T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccmagazine.es\/?p=42375"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:46:04","slug":"anais-nin-and-henry-miller-a-literate-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccmagazine.es\/en\/anais-nin-and-henry-miller-a-literate-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana\u00efs Nin and Henry Miller: A literate passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

This compilation of unpublished correspondence between Ana\u00efs Nin <\/em>and Henry <\/em>Miller during 21 years!! is a great read that we earnestly recommend.\u00a0It is a real and fascinating journey through the very heart of the passionate relationship between these charismatic lovebirds and has you hooked from beginning to end.<\/p>\n

For those of you that don\u2019t know their story, this is the background so you get the idea\u2026<\/p>\n

Ana\u00efs <\/em>and Henry <\/em>set eyes on each other for the first time in 1931 at her house in Louveciennes<\/em> (the west suburban area in Paris). They spoke for hours about literature, philosophy and psychology and mutually seduced each other with their intelligence and on a physical note, inevitably becoming lovers.<\/p>\n

Letter from Miller to Nin<\/h6>\n

\u201cAna\u00efs, I don’t know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. […] This is a little drunken, Ana\u00efs. I am saying to myself “here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere.” I remember your saying – “you could fool me, I wouldn’t know it.” When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. I can’t fool you – and yet I would like to. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal – it’s not in me. I love women, or life, too much – which it is, I don’t know. But laugh, Ana\u00efs, I love to hear you laugh. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance – no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. […]<\/em>
\nI don’t know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you – even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Additionally, and for the duration of their relationship, Ana\u00efs<\/em> also became Miller\u2019s patron, supporting him financially and helping him to publish \u201cThe Tropic of Cancer\u201d<\/em>. However, in spite of being deeply in love, they did not end up together. Miller<\/em> went to live to the Big South<\/em> looking for a change of scenery, among other things, but always hoping Nin would join him. But unfortunately that was not the case, because she hoped they would reunite in New York and the writer\u2019s new plans did not convince her. In any case, they continued to write to each other, helping and admiring one another until the end of their days.<\/p>\n

Letter from Nin to Miller<\/h6>\n

\u201cBefore, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. Now I want to write you, talk with you… I love when you say all that happens is good, it is good. I say all that happens is wonderful. For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living – god, Henry, in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness… Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on… I never feel the brakes. I overflow. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring, next to mine, then it makes me dizzy.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Interesting facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

About Ana\u00efs Nin\u2026<\/h6>\n

Ana\u00efs Nin <\/em>was born in France in 1903 but her blood was of Spanish and Danish lineage. She was the daughter of a Spanish pianist and composer Joaqu\u00edn Nin<\/em>, who marked her personality and perspective on life, and with whom she would later maintain an incestuous relationship.<\/p>\n

When Ana\u00efs<\/em> was eleven, her father abandoned her and the rest of her family to elope with a 16 year-old adolescent. After a time, humiliated and alone, Ana\u00efs\u2019<\/em> mother travelled from France to settle down in New York. They never got back in touch with Joaqu\u00edn Nin<\/em> and this became an obsession for Ana\u00efs.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the young age of 19, Ana\u00efs<\/em> managed to get a job as a flamenco dancer and model. During her adventures, she met a reliable banker Hugo Guiler,<\/em> who she married in Havana, Cuba and with whom she returned to Paris, a respectable wife.<\/p>\n

Ana\u00efs<\/em> wrote from a very young age. She began writing in the form of letters to her father. Her first novel, \u201cHouse of Incest\u201d<\/em>(1936) is a clear sample of the writer\u2019s obsession with her father.<\/p>\n

Other novels would follow such as \u201cWinters of Artifice\u201d <\/em>(1939), \u201cUnder a glass bell\u201d<\/em>(1944), \u201cChildren of the Albatross\u201d<\/em>(1947), \u201cA Spy in the House of Love\u201d<\/em>(1954), \u201cCities of the Interior\u201d <\/em>(1959) and \u201cCollage\u201d<\/em>(1964).<\/p>\n

Nin<\/em> is specifically well known for her Diaries written over four decades in which she reflects her love for Henry Miller<\/em>. She reached the peak of her fame after her death with the posthumous publication of \u201cIncest: From a Journal of Love\u201d <\/em>an open diary detailing her most intimate sexual encounters. Ana\u00efs Nin<\/em> was a friend and lover of many famous authors such as Artaud, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, James Agee<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>and Lawrence Durrell<\/em>.<\/p>\n

About Henry Miller\u2026<\/h6>\n

Henry Valentine Miller<\/em> was a famous American novelist. His work is made up of semi-autobiographical novels, in which the crude, sensual, no-holds-barred tone provoked a series of controversies in the heart of a puritan US that Miller tried to stigmatise calling out their moral hypocrisy of North American society, criticizing in doing so the fate of human existence, stripping down its cynicism and multiple contradictions. Censored because of his style and his provocative and rebellious content compared to the the literary creation of that time, his work had a great influence on the Beat Generation.<\/p>\n

He married twice. First, he married Beatrice Sylvas<\/em> and later married June Mansfield<\/em>, with whom he had an obsessive, torrid and complicated relationship, as well as his daughter. June<\/em> and Ana\u00efs <\/em>had an affair when the former visited Miller<\/em> in Paris.<\/p>\n

When the Great Depression began in 1929, Henry<\/em> travelled to France. With barely any means. In fact, he survived and ate thanks to charity that he found\u2026 But, in the midst of this shabby bohemia, he was lucky enough to meet an American lawyer, Richard Osborn<\/em>, who took him into his own home and of course, the charismatic Nin<\/em> with whom he fell hopelessly in love and who changed his life for the better in many ways.<\/p>\n

We invite you to dive into their special universe, full of sensuality, freedom, creativity and intelligence. We are sure you will be extraordinarily captivated.<\/p>\n

(*)<\/strong> Photo: Pexels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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