Henry Miller (1891-1980) is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. 'The only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past' George Orwell 'Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done' Lawrence Durrell Tropic of Capricorn paints a dazzling picture of the life of the writer and of New York City between the wars: the skyscrapers and the sewers, the lust and the dejection, the smells and the sounds of a city that is perpetually in motion, threatening to swallow everyone and everything. Miller who works for the Cosmodemonic telegraph company in New York in the 1920s and tries to write the most important work of literature that was ever published.
A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the story of Henry V. A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller's first novel, Tropic of Cancer – new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey Emin.Ī story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939.
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