Children of the Albatross — (1959)

By Anaïs Nin

Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: “The Sealed Room” focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; “The Café” brings together a cast of characters already familiar to Nin's readers, but it is their meeting place that is the focal point of the story.

As always, in Children of the Albatross, Nin's writing is inseparable from her life. From Djuna's story, told in "The Sealed Room" through hints and allusions, hazy in their details and chronology, the most important event to emerge is her father's desertion (like Nin's) when she was sixteen. By rejecting realistic writing for the experience and intutitions she drew from her diary, Nin was able to forge a novelistic style emphasizing free association, spontaneity, and improvisation, a technique that finds its parallel in the jazz music performed at the café where Nin's characters meet.

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ISBN: 0-8040-0039-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-8040-0039-0

115 pages
illus.

Anaïs Nin is one of the most unique literary figures of this century. As a novelist she has been distinctly catalytic, and her life-long diary resembles no other in the history of letters. From a small circle of admirers her audience has been transformed in recent years to a large following of international proportions. Her books have been published in a dozen languages, and she is in constant demand as a lecturer. In 1973 Anaïs Nin received the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art, and in 1974 she was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

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