Gillian Anderson reads Anaïs Nin's passionate letter about sex and poetry
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2024
- In 1932, Cuban diarist Anaïs Nin and American novelist Henry Miller began an incredibly intense love affair that would last for many years. In the 1940s, at which point she, Miller, and a collective of other writers were earning $1 per page writing erotic fiction for the private consumption of an anonymous client known only as the “Collector,” Nin wrote a passionate letter to this mysterious figure and made known her frustrations-frustrations caused by his repeated insistence that they "leave out the poetry" and instead "concentrate on sex."
Gillian Anderson joined us to read this letter at the 10th anniversary show of Letters Live at London's Royal Albert Hall in November 2023.
From The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. © The Anais Nin Trust
Gillian Anderson was the perfect person to read this letter. Beautiful.
It's been a long time since I've seen Gilian Anderson and she's still gorgeous.
I've just remembered why I had a big poster of Gillian Anderson on my wall through most of the 90s.
I think Ms. Nin would be very, very pleased with how Ms. Anderson read this.
Her reading of this letter is a beautiful coupling.
I loved Nin’s diaries which were wonderful.
I just love this woman. What a lovely reading
I definitely need to check out Anais Nin's work after this. I got so swept up in her prose and in Gillian Anderson's voice that the words just sort of crashed over me like waves. And the "Collector" seems like he was a creep tbh.
Beautiful poem. Inspiring.
My God even reading this she makes it a million times more sexy just with her voice and she's gorgeous
This is beautiful
The one of Gillian's I enjoyed most was the letter she wrote to her younger self. Moving and v. Funny.
Gillian Anderson reads this so beautifully. And she looks absolutely gorgeous, may be even more so than her relatively younger self.
Incredible poem.
bravo, lady gillion.... BRAVO!!!!!
This is a woman…who loved the horizontal folk dance… Nin was prolific writing about erotica..she wrote books, journals, essays and short stories…she had numerous literary lovers…including Lawrence Durrell (of the Durrell family)..she even elided to a brief incestuos affair with her estranged father in one of her books….she was also a bigamist…(twice the fun probably)….but Henry Miller was her real love….she received an International Literary Prize and an Honorary Doctorate…she also sort inspiration from several authors one was DH Lawrence..she did live a bohemian lifestyle…and followed the surrealist movement..she sure was active and passionate..and quite uninhibited.
Goddess bless you for this.
My wife and I are on cusp of 80 we are passionately affectionate and I adore her
What an amazingly well written boring letter
Gillian is an eternal beauty.