With an introduction by Allison Pease, this new edition of House of Incest is a lyrical journey into the subconscious mind of one of the most celebrated feminist writers of the twentieth-century.
But in time, the narrator\'s chosen isolation and self-possessed anguish give way to a visceral nightmare from which she is unable to wake..
At first, this self-love seems ideal because it is attainable without fear and risk of heartbreak.
Through a descriptive exploration of romances and attractions between women, between a sister and her beloved brother, and with a Christ-like man, Nin\'s narrator discovers what she thinks is truth: that a woman\'s most perfect love is of herself.
The Incest Nin depicts is a metaphor--a selfish love wherein a woman can appreciate only qualities in a lover that are similar to her own.
Based on Nin\'s dreams, the novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator\'s subconscious as she attempts to distance herself from a series of all-consuming and often taboo desires she cannot bear to let go.
Originally published in 1936,
House of Incest is Ana s Nin\'s first work of fiction.
With an introduction by Allison Pease, this new edition of House of Incest is a lyrical journey into the subconscious mind of one of the most celebrated feminist writers of the twentieth-century
