AstroDatabank - Nin, Anais Birth Data

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Name: NIN, ANAIS

21/02/1903

Time: 20:16 GMT (+0:00)

Gender: F

Place: Paris, France

Lat: 48 N 52

Lng: 02 E 20

RoddenRating: AA

DataSource: Quoted BC/BR

SourceNotes: B.C. in hand from Jany Bessiere 12/1991. (8:25 PM Paris time)

(Nancy Weart sent three pages from Henry Miller's " Red Notebook " 9/1991

that gave Nin's data handwritten in the book, for 8:30 PM.)

Biography: Deirdre Bair " Anais Nin. "

Biography: French writer who authored 60 diaries in her 74 years about her

SELF (often capitalized), working on perfecting her self-absorption and

sex-life. Introspective from youth, she began her diaries at 15. She

published four of the diaries from 1966 to 1971. Nin fancied herself an

artist, when, in fact, she was a minor writer and a very, very sensitive

bore. She nonetheless became an icon for the feminist movement in the

1970s, presenting herself as having successfully defied the conventions of

woman's traditional role. She was the among the first to write of personal

explorations about sex, self and psychoanalysis. Her marriages and affairs

were detailed in her books, Diaries I to IV.

Her dad was the philandering Spanish composer, Joaquin Nin, who abandoned

the family when she was 11 but continued to be the overshadowing figure in

her life. She would write long letters to her absent dad, detailing the

family's daily life. When her dad deserted the family, her mom took the

three kids to New York.

Nin worked as a fashion and artist model as well as a Spanish dancer. She

both studied and practiced psychoanalysis as well. She was among the first

to explore in print three of this century's biggest preoccupations: sex, the

self and psychoanalysis. Nin's emphasis on the intimate, personal and

instinctual were feminine traits she believed could be used in the

reconstruction of a more sensitive world. Her first book, published when

she was 27, was about D.H. Lawrence with whom she agreed that lies were

essential because most people could not stomach the naked truth. She would

brag about lying " bravely, ironically, dually, triply. "

Nin clung obsessively to the book that nourished her living; her diary, her

" one true friend. " She kept both real and false diaries, editing and

rewriting them throughout her life in a never-ending recreation of self.

Some say her writing reveals a portrait of monstrous egotism and

selfishness, horrifying in its callous indifference.

In Diary I she wrote about Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Otto Rank and

Antonin Artaud. Aware of their celebrity, Nin traded on it to entice

publication of her entire set of diaries. In her first period of " erotic

madness, " which she called " a search for the father, " she pitted one man

against another. In 1933 after a separation of nearly 20 years, she met and

seduced her own father who was then 54.

Quixotic in her choice of lovers, Nin was pragmatic when it came to

husbands. Both husbands were gullible, compliant, steadfast men who gave

her unstinting support. In 1923 she married a banker, Hugh Guiler, called

" Hugo. " Hugo paid for the publication of many of her books and made

possible the glamorous, art-infested life she led. He turned a blind eye to

her love affairs with Henry Miller and her psychoanalysts. In 1934 she

became pregnant, the first of several subsequent aborted pregnancies. She

aborted her six-month old, stillborn daughter and fictionalized the event in

" Under a Glass Bell. " During the period of conception, she was intimate

with Hugo, her father, and Miller. She insisted that Miller was the father

but never told him she was pregnant. In 1955 she married Rupert Pole

bigamously for she had not divorced Hugo.

She died at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital on 1/14/1977, at 11:55 P.M. Her

death certificate cited as causes cardiorespiratory arrest, severe

malnutrition and widespread metastatic carcinoma. Nin’s illness became

symptomatic in 1969: " The cancer began in the vagina. "

 

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