Diary of Dreams

                                                              Anais Nin

  Anais has opened woman to herself, to readers and to literature, enriching minds, increasing  appetites unceasingly for future exploration. What has Anais brought to us? The realization that beyond the exoskeleton lie jewels, sharp and clear that should not be feared. She invites the touching, excavating, embracing of truth, of mind and soul. Becoming conscious of the needs one wants to ingest and the need to surrender willingly. That humans encase within themselves the full potential to conquer the labyrinths of the interior.

 Her diary detaches her from the pain that existence brings forth. In her diary she is alone, to conceive her world unalterable. Her diary informs her with a more precise image of the total being she is and can be. That is her goal. her writing leads her to a finale in which she sees herself as precise, coherent, translucent, all pieced together, each line of a new fragment visible to her awareness, exposed, complete and full. She creates herself, mold herself into what she believes she is and what she strives to be. Her life metamorphosized her entries where each image, event, speech is translated alchemically to an abode where dream and reality are not separate. She creates her own life with the words she uses to describe how she feels about herself, her family, her friends, her lovers, her circumstances and her environment. her ability of carrying the inside out into the language of full awareness yields the deepest of satisfied introspection.

 Anais quest for the internal and eternal is diplopiatic, her searches , her wanderings are divergent. they are precise and they allow nothing to escape, all details are taken in heavily, a delirious liquid that she quaffs immortally. Which allows her to avoid exhaustion, for exhaustion is nonexistent in relation to the traveling inward, to conquering the barriers of the labyrinths.

Anais has brought to public viewing the psychology of woman. The transformation of muse to creator. She has spoken with the intricacies of a spiders web the fullness of woman. Woman in respect to herself, to those around her and to her work, She displays, velvetizing the background, the manner in which woman serves, sacrifices, dutifully yet at times subconsciously her surroundings.

Her diary is a feminine act and beyond the diary is the novel she wishes to create. Yet she views the construction of the novel as a masculine act. She feared this. She was hostile toward the masculine requirement
                

note: pictures from www.go.to/anais

note: Interview with Deidre Bair, author of Anais Nin biography www.salonmag.com/weekly/bair960729.html

note: official Anais Nin webpage www.anaisnin.com

Article by Kireina Bell