Anaïs Nin's diaries from the years 1921-1923, which she wrote ten years before her friendship with Henry Miller, are being published in Germany for the first time with this edition. The focus is on her relationship with Hugh Guiler, whom Anaïs meets at the age of 18 at a garden party. Hugh embodies for her the ideal of a man - "sometimes I dream of him for hours until I am calmed and comforted," she writes.