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At the time of Turkish war, Nin was on the battle-field. After the selling of Dalmatia to Venice (1409), Nin came under the control of Venice. Since then began its destruction; it was economically exploited but military not protected. The town was destroyed twice. The first destruction was 1571 and the second on 28 April 1646. The Venice government gave an order to burn the town and destroy it systematically.
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Nin's most prolific period of creativity was during the time that she lived with her husband, Hugh Guiler, in Paris from 1923 to 1939, especially after she met Henry Miller at the end of 1931. Her first book, just completed when she met Miller, was D.H. Lawrence: an Unprofessional Study (1932).
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Perhaps partly to escape this fate, Nin took infidelity to new imaginative heights. From 1948 onward, she played an astonishing game, spending part of each year in New York with Hugo and part in Los Angeles with a young man named Rupert Pole (whom she illegally wed in 1955), and telling each man he was her only spouse. This bicoastal charade required countless falsehoods, which she kept straight in a secret "Lie Box." Unable to stop living the lie — which, Ms. Bair notes, "would mean the ultimate failure of her entire life, an admission that it was impossible to 'live the dream' " — she kept it up until her death, of cancer, in 1977. In her obituary in The New York Times, Hugh Guiler was listed as her husband; The Los Angeles Times listed Rupert Pole. By then, the published Diary had made her a feminist heroine — an odd fate for someone who felt that learning to flirt had "helped me to become a woman," who maintained that "women see themselves as in a mirror, in the eyes of the men who love them," and who responded to the intellectuality of Virginia Woolf's writing by saying that Woolf wrote "like a man."
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With France at war, Nin and her husband fled to New York. There she encountered even more difficulty finding publishers for her fiction than in Paris. During the 1930s, in the face of the Depression and a global war against fascism, the idea of writer-as-artist prevalent in previous decades gave way to the concept of writer as social or political commentator. Nin's psychological self-probing, written in a surrealistic, intimate style, was not in fashion. However, enough of the New York literati expressed interest in her work that she decided to reprint Winter of Artifice (dropping the initial article from the title) herself.
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Nin was historically important as a centre of a Christian Bishopric in the Middle Ages. Up to the abolition and Latinization imposed by King Tomislav in the first half of the 10th century, Nin was the centre of the autonomous Croatian branch of the Church. Nin was ... the seat of the Princes of Dalmatia. The Bishop Gregory of Nin (Grgur ninski) was an important figure in the 10th century Church politics of Dalmatia.
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This volume covers the years when Nin's earlier diaries were first published. With the publication of the older diaries, Nin's reputation went from that of an underground literary figure to that of an international (albeit unintended) representative of both the women's movement and the sexual revolution. By 1974, the final year recorded in this book, Nin was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and her position as a major American author was secure.
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