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Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin (Preface) 3.66. 73,493 ratings4,493 reviews. Now hailed as an American classic Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a ...
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Mar 2, 2016 · Boasting a crude charm and energy throughout, Miller fuses fact and fiction to provide a book whose prose is often wildly self-indulgent offering a pilgrimatic Paris as the backdrop. . Miller depicts Paris as a magical place, a pilgrimage site for artists and wanderers. A meaty read, Tropic of Cancer is an exploration of what it truly means to ...
Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by Henry Miller that is best known as "notorious for its candid sexuality", with the resulting social controversy considered responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature." [ 2][ 3] It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France, but this edition ...
Jan 26, 2012 · A review on Jan. 29 about “Renegade: Henry Miller andthe Making of ‘Tropic of Cancer,’” by Frederick Turner, misspelled the surname of anauthor who wrote about Miller in the 1970s. She is ...
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The only book in my parents' bookcase which was turned the wrong way round with the spine hidden was Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller. Their idea was, no doubt, one of caring parental ...
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May 25, 2023 · Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer is a composite memoir and fiction and it cannot be appreciated if one snubs it based solely on how its author chose to live. It’s best to strip away bias rising instead to an objective view. It is the only way to see the depth of humanity through the muck of the story.
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Tropic of Cancer is the first book in this sequence, and it displays the artist/hero as fully formed, confident of his power and judgment, and the voice in which he speaks is a product of this ...
