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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 ...
It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell discoursing more widely over English literature in the 1920s and 1930s. The biblical story of Jonah and the whale is used as a metaphor for accepting experience without seeking to change it, Jonah inside the whale being comfortably protected from the problems of the ...
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.
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 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 Cancer (1934) Tropic of Capricorn (1939) The Rosy Crucifixion (1949–59) William S. Burroughs. Junkie (1953) Naked Lunch (1959) Georges Bataille. Story of the Eye (1928) Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita (1955) Ada or Ardor (1969) Hubert Selby Jr. Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) Requiem for a Dream (1978) J. G. Ballard. The Atrocity Exhibition ...
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At the time of the book's publication, numerous Miller books were still banned in the US: Tropic of Cancer, Aller Retour New York, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, The World of Sex, Quiet Days in Clichy, Sexus and Plexus. Miller was working on Nexus at the time of Big Sur's publication. [6]