Henry Miller Tropic of capricorn (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais - Softcover

MILLER HENRY

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141399147 ISBN 13: 9780141399140

Publisher: PENGUIN UK, 2015

Synopsis

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 Emin A story of sexual and spiritual awakening Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939 A mixture of fiction and autobiography it is the story of Henry V 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 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 Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done Lawrence Durrell The only imaginative prosewriter of the slightest value who has appeared among the Englishspeaking races for some years past George Orwell The greatest American writer Bob Dylan

About this title

About the Author:

Henry Valentine Miller was born in 1891 in New York City and spent most of his life in Brooklyn, Paris, and Big Sur, California. His books include Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus), Black Spring, and Crazy Cock. He died in 1980.

From AudioFile:

Campbell Scott might possibly be a narrative dead-ringer for the eponymous protagonist in Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical TROPIC OF CAPRICORN. Scott's dry, languorous, and lovely voice, which he uses for most of this book, hits all of Miller's cynical but observant notes as he describes the great muddle and mess of humanity around him in New York City during the 1920s. Most of the time Scott sounds almost apathetic, mimicking the distant, disenchanted tone of Miller. Yet, besides all the derogatory adjectives that can be thrown at Miller--misogynist, misanthrope, depressed artist--the writer was also ebullient, mystical, and euphoric. Scott, however, captures this side of Miller barely at all, to the detriment of this production. R.L.G. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: PENGUIN UK
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0141399147
• ISBN 13: 9780141399140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300