"Henry Miller is the nearest thing to Céline America has produced.... He aims not at the ears, brains or consciences, but at the viscera and solar plexus."

- The New Leader,

"His is one of the most beautiful prose styles today."

- H. L. Mencken,

"Miller is a natural bom writer, and he sees things as nobody else sees them."

- Edmund Wilson,

They are taken from the Paris books Black Spring (1936) and Max and the White Phagocytes (1938) and were for the most part, written at about the satire time as Tropic of Capricorn—the period of Miller’s and Durrell’s life in the famous Villa Seurat in Paris. As is usual with Miller, these pieces cannot be tagged with the label of any given literary category. The unforgettable portrait of Max, the Paris drifter, and the probably-autobiographical Tailor Shop, are basically short stories, but even here the irrepressible vitality of Miller’s personality keeps breaking into the narrative. And in the critical and philosophical essays, the prose poems and surrealist fantasies, the travel sketches and scenarios, Miller’s passion for fiction, for telling the endless story of his extraordinary life, cannot be held down. Life, as no other modern author has lived it or can write it, bursts from these pages—the life of the mind and the body; of people, places and things; of ideas and the imagination.
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This collection, first published by New Directions in 1939, contains a number of Henry Miller's most important shorter prose writings.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780811201100
Publisert
1961-02-01
Utgiver
Vendor
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Vekt
355 gr
Høyde
206 mm
Bredde
132 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

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Henry Miller (1891—1980) was one of the most controversial American novelists during his lifetime. His book, The Tropic of Cancer, was banned in the some U.S. states before being overruled by the Supreme Court. New Directions publishes several of his books.