Charlotte von Feyerabend Author

Love Frenzy

Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller in Paris

One of the most colourful women in literary history and a pioneer of sexual liberation and modern gender issues
Anaïs Nin's candid diaries and Henry Miller's novels were scandalous in their day and are now cult classics worldwide
For readers of literary biographies of famous female artists such as Caroline Bernard and Beate Rygiert

The Unbridled and Scandalous Love Life of the Writer Anaïs Nin

Paris, 1931. Anaïs Nin meets the twelve-year-older Henry Miller, a meeting that inspires both literarily and ignites unbridled passion. Both strive to embrace life with all senses, break all barriers, and find the perfect words for it – no matter the cost. They dance at the most extravagant parties of the Parisian Bohemia and let their imaginations run wild. However, while Henry fully indulges in the excesses, Anaïs leads a conventional parallel life with her husband Hugo, who loves her above all and provides financially for her and her artist friends. Anaïs can only process the emotional stretch between abandon and societal limitations in her famously notorious diaries: Do eroticism and sensuality belong at the center of life? Does it permit deceiving those who love you?

»I postpone death by living, suffering, making mistakes, taking risks, giving, losing.« Anaïs Nin

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Publisher: Droemer HC
Release: 01.09.2025
ISBN: 978-3-426-28286-1
336 Pages
Author: Charlotte von Feyerabend

Charlotte von Feyerabend

Charlotte von Feyerabend went out into the world at a young age. After hotel management training and a degree in literature, media education and text technology, she held jobs at various publishing houses and in PR and marketing. The author lived for six years in Oslo, five years in Berlin and two years in Stockholm, where she fell in love with the Swedish landscape and its stories. In 2020, she returned to Germany. By this time, her luggage consisted of three children, a Norwegian forest cat, seven published books (the most recent being a Kindle no. 1 bestseller and a no. 1 BILD bestseller) as well as published games and professional experience as an educator and a lecturer at a writing school, and involvement with projects with the Goethe Institut in Oslo. In 2019, she was invited to the Tysk Norsk literature festival in Oslo as an author. She is a member of DeLiA and can conjure a story from almost anything.