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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 Miller's Tropic of Cancer was published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris. [1] Set in France (primarily Paris) during the 1930s, Miller tells of his life as a struggling writer. There are many passages explicitly describing the narrator's sexual encounters, but the book does not solely focus on this subject.
The three books in the trilogy were initially banned in the United States, published only in France and Japan. [ 5 ] [ 11 ] Their American publication followed the U.S. Supreme Court 's 1964 decision that the also-banned Tropic of Cancer was a work of literature and therefore should not be banned.
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.
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
Black Spring was Miller's second published book, following Tropic of Cancer and preceding Tropic of Capricorn. The book was written in 1932-33 while Miller was living in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine (aka Clichy), a northwestern suburb of Paris. Like Tropic of Cancer, the book is dedicated to Anaïs Nin.
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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 ...