by Anaïs Nin
Ohio University Press, 1959
Paper: 978-0-8040-0181-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3527.I865L33 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.52

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

After struggling with her own press and printing her own works, Anaïs Nin succeeded in getting Ladders to Fire accepted and published in 1946. This recognition marked a milestone in her life and career. Admitted into the fellowship of American novelists, she maintained the individuality of her literary style. She resisted realistic writing and drew on the experience and intuitions of her diary to forge a novelistic style emphasizing free association, the language of emotion, spontaneity, and improvisation.


Ladders to Fire is the first volume of Nin’s celebrated series of novels called Cities of the Interior


For Anaïs Nin, her writing and her life were not separable, they were both part of the same experience. She claimed that “is it the fiction writer who edited the diary.”


Anaïs Nin continues to find an audience, whether for her fiction, her diaries, or her own life story, which has enjoyed the attention of biographers and filmmakers. This 1995 reissue of Ladders to Fire has a new cover and foreword.



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