Cities of the Interior, Volume Two : The Four-Chambered Heart / A Spy in the House of Love / Seduction of the Minotaur

Anais Nin

ISBN 10: 0704332930 / ISBN 13: 9780704332935

Published by Quartet Books, 1979

About this Item

Reprint anthology. Three of the five novels by Anais Nin, grouped together under the title of 'Cities of the Interior'. Vol. 2 contains The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love and Seduction of the Minotaur. Clean unmarked interior, paginated 241-589 with some illustrations by Hugo (her husband). Binding still strong despite several spine creases. Covers substantially worn with curled corners and one small tear at head of spine. Rubbed edges and soiled page edges.

Seller Inventory # 021300

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cities of the Interior, Volume Two : The Four-Chambered Heart / A Spy in the House of Love / Seduction of the Minotaur
• Publisher: Quartet Books
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0704332930
• ISBN 13: 9780704332935
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin began in 1946 to appear in quiet succession. Though published separately over the next fifteen years, the five were conceived as a continuous experience—a continuous novel like Proust's, real and flowing as a river.

The full impact of Anaïs Nin's genius is only to be found through reading the novels in context and in succession. They form a rich, luminous tapestry whose overall theme Nin has called “woman at war with herself.” Characters, symbols appear and reappear: now one, now another unfolding, gradually revealing, changing, struggling, growing, and Nin had forged an evocative language all her own for the telling.

“The diary taught me that there were no neat ends to novels, no neat denouement, no neat synthesis,” she explains. “So I began an endless novel, a novel in which the climaxes consisted of discoveries in awareness, each step in awareness becoming a stage in the growth like the layers in trees.”

Cities of the Interior fulfills a long–time desire on the part of readers, publisher, and Anaïs Nin herself to reunite the five novels in a single volume.

About the Author

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) was one of the most unique literary figures of this century. As a novelist she was distinctly catalytic, and her life-long diary resembles no other in the history of letters. Her books have been translated in a dozen languages.