A Spy in the House of Love

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A Spy in the House of Love whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions echoes Anas Nins personal struggle with sex love and emotional fragmentation. Although Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead she turned to fiction where her stories and novels became artistic distillations of her secret diaries. Written when Nins own life was taut with conflicting loyalties her protagonist Sabina repeatedly asks herself can one idulge ones sensual restlessness the fantasies the relentless need for adventure without devastating consequences?