Henry and June

Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

Henry and June (published 1986) is based on material expurgated from the first volume of Anais Nin's published diaries, written between October 1931 and October 1932. This, the first of currently four volumes of unexpurgated diaries, concentrates on her passionate involvement with Henry Miller and his wife June Mansfield.

Related Topics:
Anais Nin - Henry Miller

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At the end of 1931 Nin found herself bored with being a timid, faithful wife to her banker husband, Hugo Guiler, and upon meeting Miller began an uninhibited sexual and emotional affair with him, which prompted an intellectual and sensual awakening powefully detailed in her journal

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Its sequel, Incest (1992), continues Nin's odyssey of transgression and passion with detailed accounts of her simultaneous affairs with her analysts, Otto Rank and Rene Allendy, with Henry Miller and Antonin Artaud, her incestuous seduction of her father, and of her male and female cousins.

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The book was later filmed as Henry and June, with Fred Ward as Miller, Uma Thurman as June, and Maria de Medeiros as Anais Nin.

Related Topics:
Fred Ward - Uma Thurman

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