Opus Pistorum [Hardcover]

Henry Miller (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Grove Pr; 1 edition (September 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394533747
• ISBN-13: 978-0394533742
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,127,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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HENRY MILLER (1891-1980) was an American writer and painter infamous for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are "Tropic of Cancer," "Tropic of Capricorn," and "Black Spring." His books were banned in the United States for their lewd content until 1964 when a court ruling overturned this order, acknowledging Miller's work as literature in what became one of the most celebrated victories of the sexual revolution.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The wildest Henry Miller yet, September 29, 2009

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Henry Miller was your early 20th century writer of all time in my opinion. this book however is pretty hard to get sometimes and for good reason. It is a rare gem in that it ties in experience of debauch in the classic Henry Miller sense of sex and excess with epiphanies abloom. It is nice to read of a world where passion exists solely as a means of survival. You learn about what is possible and what is permissible and human nature at its base level and even loftiest attempts of experiencing and understanding why and what you are to be.