They were subsequently banned in the UK and the USA for nearly 30 years.

Published in the 1930s in Paris along with its sister-volume 'Tropic of Cancer', Miller's books were hailed as a monumentous event in the history of modern writing. Irreverent and ironic, this is both a comic portrait of the irrepressible Miller himself and a scathing attack on respectable America, the very foundations of which he hoped to shatter. The rest fornication and anarchism, sometimes very funny, always rich, exultant and honest.Ī riotous and explosive mixture of joys and frustrations, 'Tropic of Capricorn' chronicles Miller's early life in New York, from his repressive Brooklyn childhood spent amongst a galaxy of screwballs to frantic, hilarious years of dead-end jobs and innumerable erotic adventures. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. There is also a memorable portrait of his father, a delicate account of childhood, and savage, humane comedy in the bedlam of an employment office. xxxiii, 318 pages 22 cm 'A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris.' -'Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. The world of Capricorn is peopled by eccentrics and nymphomaniacs, to say nothing of the incorrigibly eccentric Miller himself. During Miller’s time at the Cosmodemonic, he meets an African American woman named Valeska, with whom he has a brief sexual liaison. Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller that has been described as 'notorious for its candid sexuality' and as responsible for the 'free speech that we now take for granted in literature.' It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France, but this edition was banned in the United States.

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