Collages

by Anaïs Nin

Book Overview

" Collages began with an image which had haunted me. A friend, Renate, had told me about her trip to Vienna where she was born, and of her childhood relationships to statues. She told me stories of her childhood, her relationship to her father, her first love. I begin the novel with: Vienna was the city of statues. They were as numerous as the people who walked the streets. They stood on the top of the highest towers, law down on stone tombs, sat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080400045X
• ISBN13: 9780804000451
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A must read...

For me this book read like a collage of images strung together seamlessly by a multitude of characters in differing places... Places that Renate traveled to, lived in, loved in and much more... Once again, with Anais' mellifluous word usage, I felt like I was right there traveling with her - Savannah Skye...

Her best fiction

I can't reasonably express how beautiful this book is. It was my first Nin reading and remains my favorite among her fiction. In my opinion, her prose and story in Collages is at its strongest and most moving. This work shows the heart of a poet.

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This book left me speechless....a whole new mode of thinking...