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The exact position of the Tropic of Cancer on the map is located at 23.5 degrees north latitude. The location of the Tropic of Cancer remains flexible. It shifts southwards at an approximate rate of half an arcsecond of latitude per year. The current position is at 23°26’14”. The region that lies between the Equator and the Tropic of ...
Tropic of Cancer was Miller’s first major work and continues to be his best-known novel. Much of his thinking is based on the views of his literary mentors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David ...
Tropic of Cancer is a largely autobiographical account of Henry Miller’s life and experiences in the south-central Parisian quarter of Montparnasse, from his arrival early in 1930 through 1932 ...
Tropic of Cancer (1934), Miller's most famous and acclaimed work, is a lyrical, profane, and surreal portrait of the author's experiences in the bohemian underworld of 1930s Paris. The novel was a ...
The first-person narrator of Tropic of Cancer is really its only character. All of the "people" Miller describes are alive only in those moments that they are in the narrator's company. They are ...
SOURCE: A preface to Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller, Grove Weidenfeld, 1961, pp. xxxi-xxxiii. [A French-born American autobiographer, novelist, short story writer, and educator, Nin established ...
Critical Evaluation. Tropic of Cancer is without doubt Henry Miller’s most famous book. The work is also one of the most notorious novels of the twentieth century and occupies a central place in ...
by Jane A. Nelson. SOURCE: "Fragmentation and Confession in Tropic of Cancer," in her Form and Image in the Fiction of Henry Miller, Wayne State University Press, 1970, pp. 19-49. [Nelson is an ...
Tropic of Cancer tries very hard to be nasty, embracing in its frenzy of violation an ambitious range of objects. Miller promises us a novel which is 'a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face ...
Tropic of Cancer has been vaguely associated with two other books, Ulysses and Voyage au Bout de la Nuit, but in neither case is there much resemblance. What Miller has in common with Joyce is a ...