journeying to the self with Anaïs Nin's sensual, transgressive diaries

  • Written by: Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
journeying to the self with Anaïs Nin's sensual, transgressive diariesAnais Nin, left, pictured in 1946.Wikimedia Commons

In a new series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking.

As I combed the library shelves looking for something to read, a 17-year-old girl flush with freedom having escaped the confines of an Australian country convent school, a title caught my eye: The...

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