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The Henry Miller Reader, ed. Lawrence Durrell, New York: New Directions, 1959. Nexus (Book three of The Rosy Crucifixion), Paris: Obelisk Press, 1960. New York: Grove Press, 1965. ISBN 0-8021-5178-7; Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, New York: New Directions, 1962. ISBN 0-8112-0322-0; Henry Miller on Writing, New York: New Directions, 1964.
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 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]
The Rosy Crucifixion, a trilogy consisting of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, is a fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of Henry Miller's life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928.
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.
The title of the book is taken from 15th-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, where oranges and other fruits symbolize the delights of paradise. [6] The book is dedicated to Miller's friend Emil White, who established the Henry Miller Memorial Library in his old cabin in Big Sur. [8] [9]
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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."
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