9780804012263-0804012261-House of Incest

House of Incest

ISBN-13: 9780804012263
ISBN-10: 0804012261
Author: Anais Nin
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Swallow Press
Format: Paperback 72 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780804012263
ISBN-10: 0804012261
Author: Anais Nin
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Swallow Press
Format: Paperback 72 pages

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House of Incest (ISBN-13: 9780804012263 and ISBN-10: 0804012261), written by authors Anais Nin, was published by Swallow Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent House of Incest (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.67.

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With an introduction by Allison Pease, this new edition of House of Incest is a lyrical journey into the subconscious mind of one of the most celebrated feminist writers of the twentieth-century.

Originally published in 1936,  House of Incest  is Anaïs Nin's first work of fiction. Based on Nin's dreams, the novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator's subconscious as she attempts to distance herself from a series of all-consuming and often taboo desires she cannot bear to let go. The incest Nin depicts is a metaphor--a selfish love wherein a woman can appreciate only qualities in a lover that are similar to her own. Through a descriptive exploration of romances and attractions between women, between a sister and her beloved brother, and with a Christ-like man, Nin's narrator discovers what she thinks is truth: that a woman's most perfect love is of herself. At first, this self-love seems ideal because it is attainable without fear and risk of heartbreak. But in time, the narrator's chosen isolation and self-possessed anguish give way to a visceral nightmare from which she is unable to wake.

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