Oh, the Burden, the Anxiety, the Sacrifices
Jenny Diski, 20 April 1995
Conversations with Anaïs Nin
edited by Wendy Dubow.
Mississippi, 254 pp., $37.95, December 1994,0 87805 719 6 Show More
edited by Wendy Dubow.
Mississippi, 254 pp., $37.95, December 1994,
“... of self were inventions of the 20th century. In his snatch of vérité during the film Reds, Henry Miller hazarded the view that people have always done a lot of fucking. Montaigne settled to his solitary task of reflective self-examination in the mid-16th century. Sex and the self as subjects for investigation share the characteristic of always making their ... ”