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Show r Page 6 Wednesday, March 2, 1977 THE ft? ANA IS MX: WOMAN AS AN ARTIST By Barbara Barry Quinn In an evening of nostalgia and celebration, three generations gathered in Los Angeles on Feb. 21, to give tribute to one of the creative spirits of this century. The seventy fourth anniversary of the birth of AnaisNin (pronounced Ahna ees). came just five weeks after her death on January 16. Throughout her life, Anais lent emotional and financial support to young undiscovered artists, whose work now fills bookstore shelves and bestseller lists. Anais, however, remained in obscurity. Her novels and stories, known in literary circles, never found a large audience. It was through the publication of the first volume of her diary, the diary she considered her life's work, in 1965, that she was at last discovered by the reading public. Last Monday, her readers, students and friends exchanged anecdotes about her life, and viewed Robert Snyder's film, "Anais Nin Observed" and a selection of slides from the collection of Rupert Pole, her husband of several decades. Anais first came to this country at age eleven, when her mother, French-Danish dancer Rosa Culmel Nin, left Spain with her three children. The diary began at this time, intended to a letter to her beloved father, Spanish composer Joaquim Nin. Her mother persuaded Anais not to mail the letter, fearing it would be lost. Thus, she unwittingly launched her daughter on a project which continued for nearly sixty three years and now consists of over a hundred volumes. In these are recorded the reflections and insights of the woman who was a life long explorer into the realm of the unconscious mind. A grammar school dropout, Anais never attended high school. When her love of the English language was discouraged by teachers who felt she should be more colloquial, she began educating herself. First exhausting her mother's collection, she read all the subjects, A Z in her local library. At sixteen she enrolled in a short story class at Columbia University, only to be told she did not write in the proper form; her stories lacked the traditional beginning, middle and end. She refused to write according to a set pattern, and began developing her own style. Ironically! this was the woman who some thirty years later, would lecture at Harvard on the elements of style! Upon her return to France as a young woman, Anais settled with her mother and brother! Joaquim, in Louveciennes, near Paris. Isolated and lonely, she turned to her love of literature and wrote her first book, D.H. 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Her generosity to artists she believed in, was sometimes to the detriment of her own health and well being. She underwent psychoanalysis and later became a practicing analysis in New York. Taking her experience as a poet and writer into the office with her, she understood the symbols through wheich her patients revealed themselves and their conflicts. Once attending an initial interview between a colleague and his patient, Anais was able to decipher the man's life history, which to his doctor seemed to be the incoherent ramblings of a madman. She recognized the universal symbols of the poets through which the man told his story. Her fiction dealt mainly with the reconciliation of the dream with reality and brought her to be associated with the surrealists. Her novels centered on the inner life of their characters from her experience with analysis and her interest in dreams, she used her characters to further her exploration of the unconscious, which she felt was the core of the being. The reader of her work sees and experiences the world through the character's charac-ter's mind, rather than being an outside observer. Anais also explored human relationships in her diary and in later years the two forms began to merge. Her fiction at times included passages lifted directly from the diary. She focused on moments of emotional crisis, believing it was at this time people reveal themselves most accurately. Anais was a feminist years before it became fashionable. In 1947 she wrote in her diary, "Women are much more dangerous as thwarted wills, unfulfilled artists, frustrated mothers, perverted power seekers who seek to dominate indirectly through man. To live vicariously is negative and destructive to both active and passive characters." She believed women to be more intuitive and should create a balance for the detached objective nature of men. Due to her unique writing style, publishers a group not always inclined to invest in originality refused to print her work. During the forties, she began publishing her own work on a foot-powered press. With her radical Peruvian friend, Gonzalo More, she founded Gomor Press and began setting type by hand. Her novel, Winter of Artiface, took eight months to set. When Gore Vidal persuaded a publisher to accept ac-cept her books, Anais wept, knowing her books would not be as beautiful as the ones she printed Although her correspondence was extensive, she personally answered each letter until her final illness deemed the output too strenuous. Anais Nin was a woman with a true gift for living. Physically small and fragile-looking, she gained tremendous strength and insight, although this was not without much struggle and pain. She found joy and renewed energy in giving to others. As her diary reveals, she achieved the goal of her writingto live out her dreams in the reality of her life. "Life is a process of becoming, a process of states we have to go through. 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