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Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anaïs Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be “the One,” the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection.

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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. Paul Herron is the founder and editor of Sky Blue Press, which publishes the journal A Café in Space and digital editions of the fiction of Anaïs Nin, as well as a new collection of Nin erotica, Auletris.

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"The fifth volume in the unexpurgated series that is gradually replacing the earlier, sanitized edition of Nin's famous diary begins with her 1939 flight from war-shadowed Paris to New York and tracks her struggles to adapt to America and reconfigure her writing life. Here she records the intimate details of her long, profoundly complicated marriage to Hugh Guiler, or Hugo, her "jailer" and "lifesaver," and explicitly chronicles her descent into "erotic madness" as she conducts concurrent affairs that include a pragmatic liaison with critic Edmund Wilson and obsessive entanglements with much younger lovers and her "children," a coterie of gay men, including 20-year-old Gore Vidal. Exacting and eviscerating, Nin tirelessly dissects her desperate longing to be transported by love. A self-described "Dona Juana," she feels like Don Quixote until she meets Rupert Pole, who dispels her mirages and offers her the nurturing counterbalance to Hugo she needs. Nin--calculating, theatrical, and prodigious - provides cascading insights into the traumas that made her a "demon of intensity" determined to turn her life into a literary work of unique psychological revelation."--Donna Seaman, Booklist, October 2013 "In Mirages, she stands before us, stripped bare, unmasked, triumphant, among her cast of sacred and noires betes (Gore Vidal, Henry Miller, et al.) now revealed, by name, as who and what they were to her. Mirages exposes, reveals and humanizes Nin as much more than the sum of heavily edited parts." - Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, author of The Visitors' Book (or Silva Rerum): An Erotic Fable "Mirages provides a treasure of newly disclosed Nin sentiments. Nin transcends self-reflection and offers a glimpse into what women feel but are rarely able to articulate, whether about daily experiences, or love gained and lost. With intense passion, her powerfully seductive prose shares insights, observations, and confessions about the human psyche. Highly recommended." - Diana Raab, author of Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You "Henry Miller called her a 'masterpiece' and the greatest 'fabulist' he had ever known. Her brother Joaquin referred to her as a 'steel hummingbird.' As for me, she was a myth in her own time, the Scheherazade of the diary genre, and epitomizes Harold Bloom's observation in Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, to wit, 'Romance, literary and human, depends on partial or imperfect knowledge.'" - Barbara Kraft, author of Anais Nin: The Last Days and The Restless Spirit: Journal of a Gemini "The celebrated diarist, novelist and electric personality reappears with all the fire of her eroticism in pages untouched by a Bowdler or a Puritan... Readers will find Nin a most entertaining companion - her multiple simultaneous relationships with men, her gleefully graphic descriptions of sex acts... In one late entry, Nin complains, mildly: 'My world is so large I get lost in it'; readers will do the same - and gratefully so." - Kirkus Reviews "At times desperate and suicidal, (Nin) finds life more fulfilling when it conforms to her dreams - a series of mirages she conjures to avoid reality, the horrors of war, and an America she finds abysmally immature... Nin fans will embrace the book's emotional intensity and sensuality." - Publishers Weekly

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