Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed … 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. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, “one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century.”
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I found it a bit confusing and a bit scattered. He takes artistic liberties that might be over my head, which is why I would say sample it first. The sex isn’t shocking because nothing these days really is, sad to say.
If you feel like hearing a story about a down and out, would be artist and misogynist deviant, this is definitely the book for you.
The ability to write proper grammatical constructions, which Miller is absolutely capable of, should not be confused with being a great writer. You also need character development, an interesting narrative, an …
Not for me. I didn’t find it interesting. I don’t mind the language or the “racy” material, I just didn’t like the rambling way it’s written.
Miller demonstrates his mastery of the English language in a raunchy tale that will turn away the easily-offended, but draw in the remaining few as he displays his unmatched use of diction. For any aspiring novelists who want to learn about allowing language to take center stage, this is the book for you.
This is a good book for novelists to know, because it appears to be shapeless and to have no structure, but Miller has in fact buried the structure very deeply and it can only be found by digging. In structural terms, a novel is expected to have three acts and two major turning points at the ends of the first and second acts followed by a climax …
Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” is one of those books that despite the hype of literary critics over the decades has very few redeeming qualities. This book was written so Miller could taunt the prevailing values of his time with his ability to us the word “cunt” in a variety of different sentences. One example of Miller’s pedantic reference to …
A classic erotic novel.
Henry Miller, awesome use of language, interesting story. Like I say Henry Miller!!!