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years, quoting, for instance, an entry from her early journal, written at the age of thirteen, which reads, “I should rewrite my arrival in New York,” and then she comments, “Even then, I had literary preoccupations” (243). Similarly, while recalling her arrival to America, she recounts that as their luggage was being unloaded, she held on obstinately to her brother’s violin case, since she “wanted people to know [she] was an artist” (218 [original emphasis]). She also mentions that from a very early age she invented stories to amuse her brothers and that she wrote for a school magazine (219). Such self-presentation creates an illusion that Nin’s writing was not a career but a vocation, which again gives her the air of a chosen one, of someone special.
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