![]() ![]() ![]() He is widely recognised as an irreverent, risk-taking writer who redefined the novel and made the link between the European avant-garde and the American Beat generation. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy ( Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. Henry Miller (1891-1980) is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy. 'The only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past' George Orwell Henry Miller (1891-1980) is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. 'Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done' Lawrence Durrell Tropic of Capricorn paints a dazzling picture of the life of the writer and of New York City between the wars: the skyscrapers and the sewers, the lust and the dejection, the smells and the sounds of a city that is perpetually in motion, threatening to swallow everyone and everything. ![]() Miller who works for the Cosmodemonic telegraph company in New York in the 1920s and tries to write the most important work of literature that was ever published. A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the story of Henry V. A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel, Tropic of Cancer - new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey EminĪ story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939. ![]()
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