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Seduction of the Minotaur

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By Anais Nin
Published by Sky Blue Press
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Published: Feb. 26, 2012
Words: 43,962 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452452418


Short description

Seduction of the Minotaur is an example of Anaïs Nin’s most mature and cohesive fiction. The central character, Lillian, arrives in exotically primitive Mexico from New York, in part to forget her crumbling marriage and to find flow in her life after years of arrest. She befriends Dr. Hernandez, who is also trying to forget, and their friendship ends in both tragedy and enlightenment.

Extended description

Seduction of the Minotaur is an example of Anaïs Nin’s most mature and cohesive fiction. The central character, Lillian, arrives in exotically primitive Mexico from New York, in part to forget her crumbling marriage and to find flow in her life after years of stasis. She befriends Dr. Hernandez, who, like Lillian, is also trying to forget, to escape, which he does with violence, shocking Lillian into facing her inner demon, the “Minotaur.”

Critic Oliver Evans says of Seduction of the Minotaur: “Its symbolism is the most complicated of any of Miss Nin’s longer works…and at the same time it makes more concessions…to the tradition of the realistic novel: the result is a work of unusual richness.”

Consider this passage: “It was the time of the year when everyone’s attention was focused on the moon. ‘The first terrestrial body to be explored will undoubtedly be the moon.’ Yet how little we know about human beings, thought Lillian. All the telescopes are focuse.. (Read more)

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novels, fiction, books, literature, womens fiction, literary fiction, anais nin, womens writing, pyschological fiction

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