Rare Book of the Day – Solar Barque, Anais Nin. First Edition.
Solar Barque, Anais Nin. First Edition.
Anais Nin was an American diarist, essayist, and writer of novels and short stories. She is known primarily for her works of erotica, considered the first prominent erotica writer in the West to explore the female side. Her journals, the published ones being from 1933 onward, are also well-known. She was acquainted, often intimately, with a number of important writers, novelists, psychoanalysts, and other figures, and detailed these relationships in her journals. Among those included were Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, Antonin Artaud, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, James Agee, James Leo Herlihy, and Lawrence Durrell. An interesting diary indeed!
Solar Barque, published in 1958, is an earlier draft of an autobiographical novel that was later published as Seduction of the Minotaur. The title refers to a ship found in an Egyptian pyramid, and the plot follows a woman named Lillian and her self-psychoanalysis. This is the first printing, published by Edwards Brothers:
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