Ladders to Fire
Ladders to Fire by Anaïs Nin is presented in this New Expanded Edition published by Swallow Press / Ohio University Press in 2014. This edition spans 180 pages and is written in English. The book interweaves the stories of several women, each facing emotional inhibitions such as self-doubt, fear, and guilt, as they navigate their inner struggles toward achieving happiness and wholeness. Nin draws from her own experiences, as recorded in her diaries, to create a narrative that reflects her unique and experimental style.
Readers will find that Ladders to Fire serves as the first volume in Nin’s continuous novel, Cities of the Interior, which includes other works like Children of the Albatross and A Spy in the House of Love. The loosely interlinked stories develop the characters and themes introduced in this volume, gradually leading toward resolutions of inner turmoil and conflict. This edition also features a new introduction by Nin scholar Benjamin Franklin V and includes Gunther Stuhlmann’s classic foreword from the 1995 edition, enriching the context of Nin’s literary contributions.
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Anaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happiness and wholeness. The author’s own experiences, as recorded in her famous diaries, supplied the raw material for her fiction. It was her intuitive, experimental, and always original style that transformed one into the other. Nin herself memorably claimed that “it was the fiction writer who edited the diary.”
Ladders to Fire is the first book of Nin’s continuous novel, Cities of the Interior, which also includes Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, and Seduction of the Minotaur. These loosely interlinked stories develop the characters and themes established in the first volume, leading slowly toward a resolution of inner turmoil and conflict.
This Swallow Press reissue of Ladders to Fire includes a new introduction by Nin scholar Benjamin Franklin V, as well as Gunther Stuhlmann’s classic foreword to the 1995 edition.
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