Henry and June

from the unexpurgated diary of Anaïs Nin.

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Anaïs Nin: Henry and June (1990, Penguin)

274 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 1990 by Penguin.

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anaïs Nin,Henry and June is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year - from late 1931 to the end of 1932 - during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. She fell in love with June's beauty and Henry's writing and, soon after June's departure for New York, began a fiery affair with Henry, which liberated her sexually and morally but undermined her marriage and let her into psychoanalysis. One question dominated her thoughts: what would happen when June returned to Paris? That event took place in October 1932, leaving Nin trapped between two loves - Henry and June.

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I bought this when the movie came out, but hadn't read it. I found it in a box I was unpacking recently. The movie adaptation is very good, but this is, you know, her diary. Very different.

I'm afraid I don't like her therapist at all (he didn't appear in the movie). He seems to be all about women's inherent need to be submissive and pathologizing her sexuality, for the most part. I'm guessing he's a Freudian. Hmf.

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Subjects

  • Nin, Anaïs, -- 1903-1977.
  • Miller, Henry, -- 1891-1980.
  • Mansfield, June.
  • Authors, American.