A tous ceux qui se plaignent de ne pas avoir le temps de lire, Henry Miller fait quelques suggestions pleines de bon sens : lisez dans les transports en commun ou, mieux encore, aux cabinets ! N''est-ce pas la un endroit calme ou personne ne vous derangera ? Apres tout, puisque nous sommes obliges d''y aller, pourquoi ne pas profiter au mieux du temps que nous y passons ? Pourtant, a bien y reflechir, ce n''est peut-etre pas une si bonne idee Miller s''invite dans notre intimite et se livre a quelques reflexions desopilantes en melant souvenirs et anecdotes sur les cabinets de lecture.
Written during the same period as "Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn", and banned in the English-speaking world upon its publication in Paris in 1936, "Black Spring" is one of Millers finest achievements, and arguably his most distinguished book from a stylistic point of view. It consists of a number of linked episodes describing some of the crucial years in his personal saga, from recollections of his childhood in Brooklyn to his time in Paris.Imbued with the spirit of Millers life experience, "Black Spring" is a linguistic tour de force which brings together the American authors greatest merits.
Exposing the underbelly of Paris and its world of sex, prostitutes and destitution, the novel was, like most of Miller's novels, repressed in Britain and the USA due to its erotic content. Fortunately, this groundbreaking narrative, which captures the free-love spirit of a generation, has outlived its contemporary accusations of obscenity, demonstrating that stylistically and socially Henry Miller was ahead of his time.
La publicaciÛn de Una pasiÛn literaria, la correspondencia inédita entre AnaÔs Nin (1903-1977) y Henry Miller (1891-1980), arroja nueva luz sobre los aspectos más íntimos de su fecundo idilio, descon
The third book of a trilogy of novels known collectively as "The Rosy Crucifixion". It is autobiographical and tells the story of Miller''s bizarre second marriage and its development into an extraor
