Book Description

"Every creative act is a declaration of war," wrote Henry Miller. This fascinating book examines the motive of revenge as a catalyst for the creative process. Evoking Bloomsbury and Paris in the twenties and thirties, acclaimed biographer Louise DeSalvo focuses on four famous literary partnerships where the written word was used as a weapon of revenge. Contents: Leonard and Virginia Woolf and "The Wise Virgins"; D. H. Lawrence and Ottoline Morrell and "Women in Love"; Djuna Barnes and "The Antiphon"; and Henry Miller and June Miller and "Crazy Cock". It will challenge our conceptions of how and why great works of literature are written.