“There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.”
Anaïs Nin book House of Incest
Source: House of Incest
Quotes from bookHouse of Incest
Anaïs NinOriginal title La Maison de l'inceste (French, 1936)
House of Incest is a slim volume of 72 pages written by Anaïs Nin. Originally published in 1936, it is Anaïs Nin's first work of fiction. But unlike her diaries and erotica, House of Incest does not detail the author's relationships with famous lovers like Henry Miller, nor does it contain graphic depiction of sex. Rather, House of Incest is a surrealistic look within the narrator's subconscious mind as she attempts to escape from a dream in which she is trapped, or in Nin's words, as she attempts to escape from "the woman's season in hell."
“My first vision of earth was water veiled.”
Anaïs Nin book House of Incest
Source: House of Incest (1936)
Context: My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water. I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self. I remember my first birth in water.
“Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.”
Anaïs Nin book House of Incest
House of Incest (1936)
Anaïs Nin book House of Incest
House of Incest (1936)
Context: The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.
