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Title: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Martin Balsam ISBN: 0-88646-124-3 Publisher: DH Audio Pub. Date: 01 November, 1986 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (110 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Invigorating Joie de Vivre
Comment: Henry Miller invigorates the mind and soul with his love and zest for life. His positivity and sense of humor shine throughout this free-spirited, innovative, & unrestricted stream of consciousness autobiographical landmark novel. Inspiring and refreshing it is that Miller maintains his positvity despite being in the midst of The Great Depression and living a desperate and destitute existence at times throughout the novel.
Having read Miller's fellow expatriate Hemingway, I liken Tropic of Cancer to The Sun Also Rises - albeit as an NC-17 version. I found Tropic of Cancer to be highly compelling reading despite its lack of structure and organization. This book, above any other, makes me yearn to be a writer. I admire Miller - not for his nihilistic and chaotic lifestyle - but for his ingenuity, his passion for his writing, and his resiliency which allowed him to write such an uncompromising work under no paramaters or publisher constraints whatsoever - which would go on to influence many future writers as well as serve as the blueprint for the autobiographical novel. Si vous pouvez lire francais, c'est tres utile pour ce livre.
I ordered Tropic of Cancer to see what all of the fuss was about - and I wasn't disappointed. This is truly an underrated novel and understandably one that is primarily read for pleasure as opposed to assigned class reading - definitely not one for Billy Bob and Sue Ann in high school. I've never met anyone who has read this book and those who know about it refer to it as "trashy". Oftentimes perception becomes reality, but not here. It is sometimes sick and perverted & sometimes nasty(the ubiquity of the lice and roaches is enticing). But, overall it is Miller's infectious enthusiasm and overwhelming love of life(and women) that inspires and invigorates the soul. I recommend Tropic to anyone who is in need of a literature experience that will prove anything but ordinary.
Rating: 5
Summary: An infamous masterpiece!
Comment: 40 years before Henry Miller had "Tropic of Cancer" published, Knut Hamsun wrote "Hunger" and "Mysteries", where the stream of consciousness was first on display in novels - with the outsider on the edge of life and death, where the blood is whispering and bone-pipes praying. Henry Miller, an open-minded American intellectual went to Paris in the pursuit of - - life - - wanting to feel alive, and to tell the whole world about it. He ended up in the gutter of that very alive city, occasionally coming up to breathe in what was upper class or only bourgeois. At the same time he found comfort in the books of authors like Dostoevsky, Strindberg and Hamsun, whom he compared to Mozart, and about "Mysteries" he later said: "No book stands closer to me. It prevented me from killing myself." (He read it a dozen times.) Parallels can be drawn between classics like "Mysteries" - "Ulysses" - "Tropic of Cancer" - even to "Catcher in the Rye". Displays of genuine feelings, dry wit, rage and disillusionment and then sudden lyrical beauty. "Tropic of Cancer" portrays dirt and lowlife, primitive lust and diseases, the diseases of the individual and of mankind, but at the same time Miller never totally loses a sense of beauty. This is a book packed with incredible descriptions of his life in the 1930s Paris, and even when delirium turns into surrealistic joyrides he is still nothing less than brilliant. This is quite a different Paris from that of Fitzgerald's and Hemingway's. They might also have had their struggles, but their experiences were still different from that of Henry Miller's lice, bedbugs, cockroaches and tapeworms. And still Henry Miller could find comfort in the struggling idols before him. One place in the book he describes how he went to see where and how Strindberg lived during his time in the same city, just to show himself that it was possible to sink even deeper... The prose in parts of the book is astonishing, and despite all who have loathed the book, most of all because of the direct and coarse language with descriptions that can make a wharfie blush, it has been praised by the likes of T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, John dos Passos, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett and George Orwell. Orwell wrote a brilliant essay on "Tropic of Cancer" called "Inside the Whale", a very thorough critical review of the book, given by the author who himself wrote "Down and Out in Paris and London".
"Tropic of Cancer" is indeed a very good book that any prudish heart, with a sense for good literature, should allow him/herself to be impressed by. It stands alone in its own place in literature, where nobody (including Henry Miller) has been since.
Rating: 1
Summary: This is not a good book, AT ALL.
Comment: This book is one of the worst books I have ever seen. I got to about page 3-4, and I didn't read any more. It offends women, it's discusting. This is a book I would not read if you gave it to me.
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Title: Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller ISBN: 0802151825 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932) by Anais Nin ISBN: 015640057X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Sexus (Rosy Crucifixion, Book One) by Henry Miller ISBN: 0802151809 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934) by Anais Nin ISBN: 0156260255 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Delta of Venus by Anais Nin ISBN: 0156029030 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 02 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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