PRAXIS is a modern classic: the portrait of a woman set in time, yet timeless. We see her first as the innocent Praxis Duveen, aged five; watch her, as the men in her life come and go, through many drastic changes in fortune and circumstance. Until, from a prison both psychological and real, she emerges as Patty Fletcher, considered as bad as a woman can be and yet her own mistress.
Dit zesde deel van de inmiddels welbekende reeks dagboeken van Anais Nin bestrijkt de periode van 1955-1966. Ze beschrijft ontmoetingen, gesprekken en briefwisselingen met al dan niet bekende personen en filosofeert over wat het leven voor haar betekent en inhoud geeft: menselijke relaties, kunst, schrijverschap. Boeiende lektuur geschreven door een bijzondere vrouw, hoewel het op den duur wel gaat irriteren, dat ze zichzelf zo hoogst bijzonder en belangrijk vindt.
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'It conveys, with concreteness and vitality, the, the detailed quality of ordinary life in the Hitler years and at the time of their catastrophic end' -Sunday Telegraph 'Leni (the central character) is seen through a series of interviews with witnesses who make up this huge "group portrait". This works brilliantly as a parody of fashionable documentary; then by making the story resonant with overlapping echoes; and finally by counterpointing these voices of the imagination with the terrible dead language of real documents of Nazi bureaucracy' -Guardian 'A work of considerable distinction' -The Times Literary Supplement