The Glass Bell

40 USD

Date

1948

Category

Poetry

Description

Under a Glass Bell, originally published in 1944 and subsequently published with several more editions, was the first book by Anaïs Nin to gain attention from the literary establishment. It was published by Nin's own printing press, which she named Gemor Press.

Excerpt

With my habit of going backstage always, I did not find that the drama lay in tragic incidents of a person's life, but in the hidden motivations which lay behind these incidents, the "interior fatality. I was more curious as to what prevented a personality from developing, a talent from blossoming. a life from expanding, a love from being fulfilled. My personal obsession with a human being's potential drove me to seek the handic~ps, blocks, interferences, impediments. This meant finding the original wish by examining early dreams and fantasies, their progression, and their withering.