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Synopsis
The principal character, Lillian, a restless spirit who is trapped in a conventional marriage, "travers[ses] a street... She was not attacked, raped, or mutilated. She was not kidnapped for white slavery. But as she crossed the street...she felt as if all these horrors had happened to her, she felt the nameless anguish, the shrinking of the heart, the asphyxiation of pain, the horror of torture whose cries no one hears." What makes Ladders to Fire revolutionary is that it was an early attempt to address woman's quest for completeness in a male-dominated world. Through the relationships of the iconic characters Lillian, Djuna, Sabina and Jay, Nin examines "the destruction in woman...woman's struggle to understand her own nature," a theme still relevant today. Ladders to Fire is the first novel in the series Nin entitled Cities of the Interior. The other titles are Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, and Seduction of the Minotaur.
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After struggling with her own press and printing her own works, Anais Nin succeeded in getting Ladders to Fire accepted and Published in 1946. This recognition marked a milestone in her life and career. Admitted into the fellowship of American novelists, she maintained the individuality of her literary style. She resisted realistic writing and drew on the experience and intuitions of her diary to forge a novelistic style emphasizing free association, the language of emotion, spontaneity, and improvisation. Ladders to Fire is the first volume of Nin's celebrated series of novels called Cities of the Interior. For Anais Nin, her writing and her life were not separable, they were both part of the same experience. She claimed that "it is the fiction writer who edited the diary".
About the Author
Anais Nin—the celebrated novelst, diarist, and short story writer—was born in France and spent her childhood in various parts of Europe and in New York. Nin returned to New York just before the outbreak of World War II, and she spent the rest of her life living there and in Paris and Los Angeles. Her work is characterized by a interest in the subconscious. Her five novels in the Cities of the Interior series focus on different female types and follow their lives through lovers, art, and analysis. In 1973 Nin received an honorary doctorate from Philadelphia College of Art. She was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1974.
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- PublisherPeter Owen
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0720611628
- ISBN 13 9780720611625
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages182
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