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Tropic of Cancer "has had a huge and indelible impact on both the American literary tradition and American society as a whole." [55] The novel influenced many writers, as exemplified by the following: Lawrence Durrell's 1938 novel The Black Book was described as "celebrat[ing] the Henry Miller of Tropic of Cancer as his [Durrell's] literary ...
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism.
Tropic of Cancer (1934) Henry Miller: 1934 1964 Novel (fictionalized memoir) Banned in the US in the 1930s until the early 1960s, seized by US Customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of Miller's work was also banned by the US. [286] Also banned in South Africa until the late 1980s. [287] The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John ...
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My Bike and Other Friends, Volume II, Book of Friends, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1978. ISBN 0-88496-075-7; Joey: A Loving Portrait of Alfred Perlès Together With Some Bizarre Episodes Relating to the Opposite Sex, Volume III, Book of Friends, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1979. ISBN 0-88496-136-2
The Tropic of Cancer is the most northerly circle of latitude of the Earth's tropics region. Tropic of Cancer may also refer to: Tropic of Cancer, 1934 novel by Henry Miller; Tropic of Cancer, 1970 film based on the Henry Miller novel; Tropic of Cancer, 2010 BBC TV series
Tropic of Capricorn was published in France, in English, by Obelisk Press in February 1939. [8] [10] A French translation appeared as Tropique du Capricorne in April 1946.Sales of the book, along with Tropic of Cancer, were boosted by the controversy surrounding their censorship, with complaints against Miller and his publisher on charges of pornography. [11]
Kahane published Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, which had explicit sexual passages and could not therefore be published in the United States; Obelisk published five more books by Miller, as well as Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero (1930), Anaïs Nin's Winter of Artifice (1939), Cyril Connolly's first book and only novel, The ...