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Collages (novel)

Name: Collages (novel)
Author: Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

Collages, published in 1964, was Anaïs Nin's last published novel . It is very different from the previous novels of the Cities of the Interior series, because it contains none of the familiar characters in those novels. It is also different in that it takes place on two continents, has about two dozen important characters, and for the first time in Anaïs Nin's work the female lead is not seeking psychological wholeness. Most of Anaïs Nin's other novels only have a few main characters, there is rarely much geographical movement in the other novels, and usually the lead character is a woman seeking psychological wholeness.

“Solitude may rust your words.”

Anaïs Nin book Collages (novel)

Collages (1964), p. 116

“Every word you wrote I ate, as if it were manna. Finding one's self in a book is a second birth; and you are the only one who knows that at times men behave like women and women like men, and that all these distinctions are mock distinctions.”

Anaïs Nin book Collages (novel)

Collages (1964), p. 114

“Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve”

Anaïs Nin book Collages (novel)

Collages (1964), p. 116
Context: Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.