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Title: Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin ISBN: 0-8040-0280-0 Publisher: Swallow Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: No words to describe its beauty!!
Comment: I just finished one of the most amazing book of the century gone by. I do not know why people always associate Anais Nin and her works to Erotica when there is so much more to it. Yes she did write a whole lotta sensous reading material but then again she was only portraying the truth, wasn't she?
A Spy in the House of Love is all about a woman named Sabina and her life as she flows or rather drifts from one lustful experience to another. She lies, she deceives, she puts on an act only never to find solace in places where she looks for the most - in the arms of strangers but her own husband Alan.
My feelings ranged like tidal waves while devouring this book. I felt like a thief hiding a secret and at the same time felt so connected with my emotions and responses to what my body demanded.
Sabina as a character is so quite that sometimes her silence speaks volumes. The way she moves, the way Ms. Nin breathes life into her is absolutely a piece of art. Rising from the ashes and yet unforgiven. A true to life caricature of what desires can do and their power on our mortal lives.
Rating: 4
Summary: This book is a pleasurable two-day read.
Comment: Anais Nin delves into the sexual natures of women and men in this brief novel. The enduring feature of this novel is that it is not a social analysis of love but rather a pshycoanalysis. Ms. Nin, as many became aware of from her diaries, was a freely permiscuous woman despite her marriage which lasted most of her life. While Ms. Nin wrote this book in the third person, its main charector is clearly based on herself. She provides insights which are concise, though sometimes drifting into stream of consciousness type naration. She appreciates the complexities of people, which in my view is the only way to remotely be able to provide insights into why one loves. Her "analysis" of the various sexual relationships in the book has elements of Freudian thought though neither blindly nor exclusively such. Though Ms. Nin's charector, a restless "actress", appears to have her soul comforted at the end of the novel, there is no real resolution of any of the philosophical or psychological dillemas of her lifestyle. I would recomend this book to anybody as a "quick down and dirty" source of insight into the nature of love and sex
Rating: 5
Summary: Refreshingly nonjudgmental tale of infidelity
Comment: I actually owned this book for years before getting around to reading it, and then when I finally did I was kicking myself for not reading it sooner. "A Spy in the House of Love" is the story of a young woman named Sabina who, despite having a kind and loving husband, engages in adulterous affairs with men she barely knows. What is it that motivates Sabina? Is it a thirst for adventure? Lust? Resentment towards her husband or the roles society imposes on her? Instead of being a trite morality tale where the "sinner" is punished by facing horrible consequences (like the recent film "Unfaithful") this book explores, without judgement, Sabina's conflicted emotions and motives.
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Title: Delta of Venus: Erotica by Anais Nin ISBN: 0156029030 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 02 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Incest: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932-1934) by Anaïs Nin ISBN: 0156443007 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Little Birds by Anais Nin ISBN: 0156029049 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 02 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932) by Anais Nin ISBN: 015640057X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: House of Incest by Anais Nin ISBN: 0804001480 Publisher: Swallow Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1958 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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