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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780802131782
ISBN: 0802131786
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 318
Publication Date: January 06, 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 7340
Studio: Grove Press
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Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for 27 years after its publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American cesorship standards permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s.
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No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read this, you see immediately how much modern writers owe Miller.
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I read this book several years ago. I wasn't then in a position to fully grasp the lietarary value of it, plus I lost the book!. Now I want to read it again and safekeep it.
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Read as much about the story behind this book as possible before reading the book itself.
In a sense, it is nothing more than a diary of a man in Paris during the "great" Depression who was passionate about writing, so passionate he simply walked away from a mundane job one day, managed to get to Paris on ten dollars, and lived by his wits, if starving is living. Had it not been for Anaïs Nin's encouragement and her (husband's) financial generosity, it is doubtful Henry Miller's writing ... Read More
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After its publication in 1934, why was this book banned as obscene for 27 years? One big reason is probably the way Miller refers to women, often using the c-word.
Set in the 1930's, Paris, Tropic of Cancer describes how an expatriate artist (Miller) survives by taking advantage of patrons and their money, writing and, of course, getting laid.
It's plotless and definitely atypical.
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I'm hoping Oprah will make this her next Book Club selection - if she thinks Dr. Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth is revivifying amid the sterility of modern life, she hasn't seen anything yet. Tropic of Cancer is nothing less than a bilgistic piece of ecstatic optimism. It comes as an electric shock when read in the context of the last century's deadening, pessimistic literature or in the context of our (generally) syrupy, self-conscious contemporary literature - or just in the context of day to day life ... Read More
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Puerile, vulgar, and tawdry.
Apt description of Henry Miller, American expatriate and author of "Tropic of Cancer," a semi-autobiographical novel of his time in Paris, pathetic in its hedonism, rich in its misanthropy, and ultimately anarchic. Miller makes no attempts to portray his novel as a redeeming salvo; he revels in his own literary filth amid his self-described truth and ugliness. And for this, the novel was banned in the United States after it was published in the 1930s. Banned, ... Read More
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