Генри Валентайн Миллер (1891-1980) - выдающийся классик американской литературы, чей стиль многогранен и разнообразен. Автор оказал огромное влияние на литературу нового времени, в том числе бит-поколения, и всячески способствовал сексуальной революции, прямолинейно описывая ранее запрещенные общественной моралью явления: сексуальную свободу во всех формах, грубые выражения и низвержение всех святынь.
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Black Spring is a novel by the American writer Henry Miller, published in 1936 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France. Black Spring was Miller's second published novel, following Tropic of Cancer and preceding Tropic of Capricorn. It is divided in ten almost independent sections
1963, Grove Press
In Nexus (1959), the final installment, Miller finds himself an outsider in his own marriage, as Mona’s relationship with Anastasia (Jean Kronski) grows, with the pair finally abandoning Miller to travel to Paris. After Mona’s return on her own, the trilogy ends with Miller and his wife departing for Paris. New York: Grove Press, 1965. ISBN: 0-8021-5178-7
Перед вами — самое скандальное из произведений Генри Миллера, которое Норман Мейлер назвал «лучшим эротическим романом нашего времени». Ирония — и самоирония… «Ночная культура» Парижа 1930-х — и страшная, забавная и изысканная история «воспитания чувств» в ритме свинга…
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Plexus (1953), the second volume, continues with the story of Miller’s marriage to Mona, and covers Miller’s attempts to become a writer after leaving his job at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company New York: Grove Press, 1963. ISBN: 0-8021-5179-5
Quiet Days in Clichy is an autobiographical novella written by Henry Miller. It is based on some of his loony Parisian adventures in the early 1930s, when he and Alfred Perlès, both struggling writers, shared a small apartment in suburban Clichy (at 4 Avenue Anatole-France).[1][2] It takes place around the time Miller was writing Black Spring.[3][4] According to his...
Sexus (1949), the first volume, describes the break-up of Miller’s first marriage as he meets, falls in love with and marries his second wife, the captivating and mysterious dancer Mona (June). At the beginning of Sexus, Miller is 33 years old. June is at first called Mara, but at the beginning of chapter 8, and for the remainder of the trilogy, her name is changed to Mona. Miller...
In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like—to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last three years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is the result...
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1952. New York: New Directions, 1969. ISBN: 0-8112-0108-2 В произведении, давшем название этому тому, Генри Миллер повествует о своих литературных пристрастиях, говорит о любимых книгах и даже приводит весьма объемный их список. Вкусы Миллера могут показаться парадоксальными: элитарные Гамсун и Пруст здесь мирно уживаются с популярными Вальтером...
The Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, written in 1939 and first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. As an impoverished writer in need of rejuvenation, Miller travelled to Greece at the invitation of his friend, the writer Lawrence Durrell. The text is inspired by the events that occurred. The text is ostensibly a portrait of the...
New York: New Directions, 1956. New York: New Directions, 1962. ISBN: 0-8112-0115-5 This study is not literary criticism but a fascinating chapter in Miller's own spiritual autobiography. The social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and this book is perhaps his most poignant and concentrated analysis of the artist's dilemma.
The Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. The novel was subsequently banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. It is a sequel to Miller's 1934 work, the Tropic of Cancer.
The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V. Miller'...
Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris. Its publication in 1961 in the United States by Grove Press led to an obscenity trial that was one of several that tested American laws on pornography in the 1960s. While famous for its frank and often graphic depiction of sex, the book is also widely regarded as an important...
Tropic of Cancer (1934), Miller's most famous and acclaimed work, is a lyrical, profane, and surreal portrait of the author's experiences in the bohemian underworld of 1930s Paris. The novel was a personal and artistic break-through for Miller, who was an obscure and impoverished writer when it was first published. The theme of sexual and artistic liberation, which pervades...
Tropic of Cancer (1934), Miller's most famous and acclaimed work, is a lyrical, profane, and surreal portrait of the author's experiences in the bohemian underworld of 1930s Paris. The novel was a personal and artistic break-through for Miller, who was an obscure and impoverished writer when it was first published. The theme of sexual and artistic liberation, which pervades...
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