![]() Love that this dude was always down to clown. All that aside I found myself endlessly swept up and drawn in and enchanted throughout. stars5 of 5 stars63Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, 1) Tropic of Cancer (Tropic. Though I suppose the aim here was to just write it all as it happened so what the hell - I don’t know, there’s no excuse for any of it really. The Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time List represents a list of. ![]() His referring to one of the myriad sex workers in the novel as a “fucked-out cunt of a whore” stands out in my mind. Though damn it was hard to wince my way through a lot of the misogyny and racial slurs here that to me just felt unnecessary a lot of the time, by which I mean it didn’t help create a sense of time/place or add to any sort of vibe at all. I’m glad that I read that before I read this one because I was able to sense the warmth, humour, attitude, and sort of puffed up brilliance I so admired while reading his later work. Autobiographical novel by American writer Henry Miller, published in 1934. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy ( Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. My journey with Henry Miller began when I read his novel Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch nearly a decade ago which I adored. Tropic of Cancer in English with a Parallel Translation. About the author (2015) Henry Miller (1891-1980) is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. ![]()
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