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      Writing an Icon

       Writing an Icon

      Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin

      Anita Jarczok

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      ATHENS, OHIO

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Jarczok, Anita, author.

      Title: Writing an icon : celebrity culture and the invention of Anaïs Nin / Anita Jarczok.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016051564 | ISBN 9780804011754 (hardback) | ISBN 9780804011761 (pb) | ISBN 9780804040754 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Nin, Anaïs, 1903–1977. | Authors, American—20th century—Biography. | Literature and society—United States—History—20th century. | Celebrities—United States—20th century. | BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women’s Studies. | LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.

      Classification: LCC PS3527.I865 Z726 2017 | DDC 818/.5209 [B] —dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016051564

      Parts of chapter 3 originally appeared in “Anaïs Nin, Feminism and Celebrity Authorship—Negotiating Image and Identity in the Interviews,” in Stardom: Discussions of Fame and Celebrity Culture, ed. Katarzyna Bronk (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012), 13–21, and “Anaïs Nin, Feminism and Celebrity Authorship—Negotiating Image and Identity in the Interviews,” in Search for the Real: Authenticity and the Construction of Celebrity, ed. Andrew Sepie (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014), 83–98.

      Parts of chapters 3 and 4 appeared in earlier form in “Eroticizing Nin, Eroticizing Women: Philip Kaufman’s Henry & June,” A Café in Space: The Anaïs Nin Literary Journal 8 (2011): 57–77 and “Anaïs Nin and the Business of Reviewing and Management of Her Public Persona, 1966–1977,” A Café in Space: The Anaïs Nin Literary Journal 9 (2012): 82–101.

      Contents

       Acknowledgments

       INTRODUCTION. Anaïs Nin and Her Diary

       ONE. Literary Celebrity, the Modernist Marketplace, and Marketing the Diary

       TWO. Public Promotion of the Private Self: Anaïs Nin’s Self-Constructions in the Diary

       THREE. Public Relations of the Self: Anaïs Nin, Feminism, and Celebrity Authorship

       FOUR. Success, Scandal, Sex, and the Search for the “Real” Anaïs Nin

       CONCLUSION. Anaïs Nin in the Twenty-First Century

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

      Acknowledgments

      First, I wish to acknowledge and thank Dr. Sinead McDermott and Dr. Patricia Moran for reading the earliest manuscript version of this book and for all their advice and guidance. My research was made possible by a Women’s Studies scholarship from the University of Limerick and funding from the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. Without this financial assistance, I would not have been able to complete my studies. I also would like to thank all the people who directly or indirectly contributed to the writing of this book: Dr. Carmen Kuhling, Professor Brenda Silver, and the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their invaluable suggestions and critique; Paul Herron for providing materials on Anaïs Nin; the librarians at the Anaïs Nin Collection at the University of California, Los Angeles, for their helpful assistance with my archival research; Anna Jaskier for devoting her time to double-checking the accuracy of the quotations; Angela Przelomski for her comments on the introduction; and Gillian Berchowitz, Nancy Basmajian, and Ricky Huard along with all the other staff of the Ohio University Press for their encouragement and help throughout the writing and publishing process. I am grateful to Tree Wright for letting me use excerpts from Nin’s original journals and letters. Finally, I am indebted to my family and friends, especially those who provided their constant support regardless of the many kilometers separating us. Special thanks to my parents my brother, and to my friends Aleksandra and Darragh Browne, Lisa Breford, Anna Jaskier, Julien Lynagh, and Katarzyna Papkoj.

      Introduction

      Anaïs Nin and Her Diary

      A few weeks after Madonna published Sex—a provocative book containing highly erotic, verging on pornographic, imagery and language—a short article entitled “Pages: No Monopoly for Madonna” appeared in the Los Angeles Times. “Harcourt Brace Jovanovich would like to remind the world that Madonna does not hold the patent on sexual confessions,” it announced in the opening sentence. The article further suggested that it was not Madonna but Anaïs Nin, a long-dead diarist and author of erotic stories, who paved the way for sexually explicit revelations. An occasion to mention Nin’s name arose because Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, a major American publisher, printed the very same year, in 1992, another installment of Nin’s unexpurgated diary. Entitled Incest, more shocking than Madonna’s Sex, Nin’s diary revealed, as the Times article duly reported, that Nin “was simultaneously sleeping with her psychoanalyst, her cousin Eduardo, her husband and her father.” Madonna’s controversial erotic fantasies faded, the article seemed to imply, when contrasted with the outrageous stories from Nin’s life. But juxtaposing Nin with the famous pop star served another purpose than just ranking these two female artists on the controversy scale: it was also a way of promoting the forgotten cultural icon with the help of a celebrity who was then at the top.1

      Nin and Madonna have a lot in common, but above all, both are controversial personalities whose image underwent many transformations. Sex was a major turning point in Madonna’s career.