Ladders to Fire (Cities of the Interior Ser., Vol. 1)

Nin, Anais

ISBN 10: 0804001812 / ISBN 13: 9780804001816

Published by Swallow Press, Athens, OH, U.S.A., 1995

Light wear to spine and wraps, name stamped in ink, ocassional underlining to text. A reading copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 0772116

Synopsis:

After struggling with her own press and printing her own works, Anaïs 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 Anaïs Nin, her writing and her life were not separable, they were both part of the same experience. She claimed that “is it the fiction writer who edited the diary.”

Anaïs Nin continues to find an audience, whether for her fiction, her diaries, or her own life story, which has enjoyed the attention of biographers and filmmakers. This 1995 reissue of Ladders to Fire has a new cover and foreword.

About the Author:

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) is an iconic literary figure and one of the most notable experimental writers of the twentieth century. As one of the first women to explore female erotica, Nin revealed the inner desires of her characters in a way that made her works a touchstone for later feminist writers. Swallow Press is the premier US publisher of books by and about Nin.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ladders to Fire (Cities of the Interior Ser....
Publisher: Swallow Press, Athens, OH, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Good - Cheap Reading Copy
Edition: Reprint.
Book Type: Book