Book Description
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811201087
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400889227
An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller—and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape “the air-conditioned nightmare” of the modern world The American writer Henry Miller's critical reputation—if not his popular readership—has been in eclipse at least since Kate Millett's blistering critique in Sexual Politics, her landmark 1970 study of misogyny in literature and art. Even a Miller fan like the acclaimed Scottish writer John Burnside finds Miller's "sex books"—including The Rosy Crucifixion, Tropic of Cancer, and Tropic of Capricorn—"boring and embarrassing." But Burnside says that Miller's notorious image as a "pornographer and woman hater" has hidden his vital, true importance—his anarchist sensibility and the way it shows us how, by fleeing from conformity of all kinds, we may be able to save ourselves from the "air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern world. Miller wrote that "there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy," and in this short, engaging, and personal book, Burnside shows how Miller teaches us to become less adapted to the world, to resist a life sentence to the prison of social, intellectual, emotional, and material conditioning. Exploring the full range of Miller's work, and giving special attention to The Air-Conditioned Nightmare and The Colossus of Maroussi, Burnside shows how, with humor and wisdom, Miller illuminates the misunderstood tradition of anarchist thought. Along the way, Burnside reflects on Rimbaud's enormous influence on Miller, as well as on how Rimbaud and Miller have influenced his own writing. An unconventional and appealing account of an unjustly neglected writer, On Henry Miller restores to us a figure whose searing criticism of the modern world has never been more relevant.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780811201124
Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and how he learned to draw on his own experience.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007389469
Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811201117
A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 9781847491206
Author : Brassaï
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1950994244
“A wonderful portrait of Miller in his heyday: full of beans and braggadocio, overflowing with the lust to live and write.”—Erica Jong His years in Paris were the making of Henry Miller. He arrived with no money, no fixed address, and no prospects. He left as the renowned if not notorious author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Miller didn’t just live in Paris—he devoured it. It was a world he shared with Brassaï, whose work, first collected in Paris by Night, established him as one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century and the most exquisite and perceptive chronicler of Parisian vice. In Miller, Brassaï found his most compelling subject. Henry Miller: The Paris Years is an intimate account of a writer’s self-discovery, seen through the unblinking eye of a master photographer. Brassaï delves into Miller’s relationships with Anaïs Nin and Lawrence Durrell, as well as his hopelessly tangled though wildly inspiring marriage to June. He uncovers a side of the man scarcely known to the public, and through this careful portrait recreates a bright and swift-moving era. Most of all, Brassaï evokes their shared passion for the street life of the City of Light, captured in a dazzling moment of illumination.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Authors, American
ISBN :
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811201094
The author's quest for spiritual renewal is illuminated in descriptions of his impressions of Greece and its people.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811222365
An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdom In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing “from the heart,” always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thoughts and feelings. “His real aim,” Karl Shapiro has written, “is to find the living core of our world whenever it survives and in whatever manifestation, in art, in literature, in human behavior itself. It is then that he sings, praises, and shouts at the top of his lungs with the uncontainable hilarity he is famous for.” Here are some of Henry Miller’s best-known writings: an essay on the photographer Brassai; “Reflections on Writing,” in which Miller examines his own position as a writer; “Seraphita” and “Balzac and His Double,” on the works of other writers; and “The Alcoholic Veteran,” “Creative Death,” “The Enormous Womb,” and “The Philosopher Who Philosophizes.”