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Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer By Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller


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Summary

Written in 1934, this is a fictional autobiography of Miller's first months in Paris as a struggling writer. Its sexual explicitness was revolutionary for its time and brought Miller considerable notoriety.

Tropic of Cancer Summary

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of Bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years.

Tropic of Cancer Reviews

'Tropic of Cancer is a great prophetic book, a warning of what deadens life, an affirmation that it can yet be lived in an age whose sterile non-cultures seek to thwart all mainsprings of fertility. Miller reveals himself as a battered faun, a crafty innocent, a lonely, lazy, sometimes fearful, always steadfast, worshipper of life' Spectator

About Henry Miller

Henry Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1930, Miller went to live in Paris. For the next ten years he mingled with impoverished expatriates and bohemian Parisians; his first published book, Tropic of Cancer appeared in 1934 from the Obelisk Press in Paris. It was followed five years later by its sister volume Tropic of Capricorn. Sexually explicit, these books electrified the European literary avant-garde and were almost universally banned outside France. In 1961, after an epic legal battle, Tropic of Cancer was finally published in the States (and then in England in 1963). Miller became a household name, hailed by the Sixties counter-culture as a prophet of freedom and sexual revolution. He died on June 7 1980.

Additional information

GOR001486614
9780007115204
0007115202
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20010417
320
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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