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Tropic of Capricorn (Miller, Henry) by [Henry Miller]

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Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.

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"There is nothing like Henry Miller when he gets rolling. . . . One has to take the language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity." -Norman Mailer

"There is an eager vitality and exuberance to the writing . . . we watchfully hear the language skip, whoop and wheel across Miller's pages." --William H. Gass

"The most enthralling and hilarious explosions are the sexual ones." --"Newsweek"

"A superb entertainment that brings in jeremiads, casual lyrics, and sudden reaches toward the spiritual core of life . . ." --"The New York Times Book Review"

"Miller has once and for all blasted away the very foundation of human hypocrisy--moral, social, and political. . . . The grandest passages are the scenes of lovemaking. They join in a grand paean to all that is still joyous, healthy, happy, and affirmative." --"The Nation"

"American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done." -Lawrence Durell

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Campbell Scott might possibly be a narrative dead-ringer for the eponymous protagonist in Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical TROPIC OF CAPRICORN. Scott's dry, languorous, and lovely voice, which he uses for most of this book, hits all of Miller's cynical but observant notes as he describes the great muddle and mess of humanity around him in New York City during the 1920s. Most of the time Scott sounds almost apathetic, mimicking the distant, disenchanted tone of Miller. Yet, besides all the derogatory adjectives that can be thrown at Miller--misogynist, misanthrope, depressed artist--the writer was also ebullient, mystical, and euphoric. Scott, however, captures this side of Miller barely at all, to the detriment of this production. R.L.G. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008RZKDHU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press; Reprint edition (December 1, 2007)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 1, 2007
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1628 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 292 pages

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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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Yuanxiao X.

only a good read for young readers who never read philosophy

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 2020

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The story & the main character do not develop in any meaningful way. Read any ten pages, and you can skip the rest without missing much.

I imagine this would be a fun read for someone very young (high school, pre-high school), or someone who has never read/thought about philosophy before. I would highly recommend this book to you if this description fits you! Let it serve as a gateway to better literature.

Henry Miller is without a doubt very talented. I am not sure if he just plainly did not use his talent well, or, maybe, he was intentionally using this style of writing as a way emphasizing his message... Either way, I wish this was a ten-page short story instead. It could have been one of the best short stories ever written. As it stands now, it's just a mediocre book. In retrospect, I regret making the purchase.

For those who are interested in Henry Miller's style or message, but are 18+ or read philosophy, I recommend you read Celine's Journey to the End of the Night instead. It is a thousand times better.

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Ron Ginzler

Brooklyn Boy vs. America

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2016

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Tropic of Cancer gets all the attention, but Tropic of Capricorn may be the more important book. Written five years later, we see Miller's earlier years in Brooklyn, his total alienation and disgust with America, his early sexual exploits. If you haven't read Miller before, do not expect a novel or any cohesive structure to the book. Between short autobiographical episodes, often hilarious and explicit, he goes on long lyrical rants which amount to prose poems a la Whitman. Some are overblown philosophical/religious rants, others explorations into the nature of sex, modern man, art, America, what have you. If you are easily offended, avoid this book. If you don't want your vocabulary expanded, avoid this book. Miller's first marriage is sort of a background to the action, a marriage so loveless that he refers to his family only as "the wife" and "the kid" as he pursues other women continually. Near the end, he meets his second wife, June, not mentioning her by name, but doing a dissection of her character, as a prequel to The Rosy Cruxifixion trilogy. He also brings himself into the Dadaist and Surrealist circles, claiming he was the first American Dadaist without knowing it. Regardless of what you think of Henry and his influence on American literature, this book's worth reading. Two middle fingers up!

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Thomas Burke

Beautiful writing, although sometimes pretentious

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2015

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Same as Tropic of Cancer, Miller can write but I wish he was writing about anything else. Deep-seated hatred of paragraphs as well, oh my. Beautiful writing, although sometimes pretentious. Really captured thoughts, places, and people. Tended to ramble. And to ramble about nothing important. Sex and people. But meaningless sex and meaningless people. Oh my. Really slowed down my reading this one. 3 stars may be generous. I can see why people would give it five though, but also why people would give it 1. Hit or miss.

“Perhaps my grandfather was right, perhaps I was spoiled in the bud by the books I read. But it is ages since books have claimed me. For a long time now I have practically ceased to read. But the taint is still there. Now people are books to me. I read them from cover to cover and toss them aside. I devour them, one after the other. And the more I read, the more insatiable I become. There is no limit to it. There could be no end, and there was none, until inside me a bridge began to form which united me again with the current of life from which as a child I had been separated.”

"Ending Quote on being in love"

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Mark Levine

Among Other Things

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Out of idle curiosity and a desire to reread (third time) Miller's Tropic novels, I checked the consumer reviews of Tropic of CANCER first. I am interested in new generations discovering the stuff that I read going back to the early 60s. I found the reviews surprisingly dense, repeating the old cliches and personal prejudices.

Those of TROPIC OF CAPRICORN, on the other hand, are pointed and intelligent. Moreover, they recognize one of Miller's great traits--- humor. One reviewer pointed out the book's "hilarity", an apt characterization. Another emphasized Miller's description of the Cosmodemonic messenger service at which he worked. This is one of the most memorable sections of any book I have read: hilarious, biting satire, and (before Miller departs) a great New York book.

I have always thought Miller was, among other things, a parodist, and thus those who take him too literally (from Norman Mailer to the guy who showered after reading CANCER)are missing one of our outstanding writers, or certainly mistaking the author for the narrator.

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Philip L. Tudor

Good, but too much free association

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2014

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I liked this book, and for today's reader, do not think it is really that shocking. After reading it, the reader will really know what it was like to be truly flat broke in 1920's Paris; and also vividly describes the sleaze of the post-WWI broke and partying expatriate residents of the City. The author has very few moral scruples, and I got the impression that he was not a true friend to anyone but himself. Rather, his "friendships" seemed to based on how he could use people, and when he could no longer find a way to use them, he did not have much time for them. I gave the book only three stars, because there is a lot of free association writing, and those parts of the book tend to get a tedious. Overall, I'm glad I'm glad I read the book, just because I needed to know after hearing so much about it.

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Daniel Underwood

My first Henry Miller experience (at once both depressing and beautiful)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2013

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While I don't have much of substance or depth to say about this book, I will say that I find the writing at times depressing, almost nihilistic, but then occasionally there are beautiful passages written so seductively smoothly that every word slides by so effortlessly as to be almost elusive, while incrementally painting a poignant scenario or slowly constructing an often-dark, evocative, philosophical mood. This is my experience, as best as I can understand it. I wish I could offer sophisticated criticism, but I do not possess the necessary experience or training to conduct such an analysis.

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David M.

Whoa

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2021

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Henry Miller is a way out there cat. Bring your thinking cap and imagination with you when you crack this one open.

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GOS03

Love Miller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 7, 2014

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I really like it and I found it very useful for my personal interests in arts and literature. It comes as it is described, so very satisfactory.

Brian Bookworm

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 13, 2014

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Great record of the author's life in Paris

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very good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 6, 2016

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phantastic

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 25, 2016

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Classic re-read!

Sam the Man

Nice cover, but... typos!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 24, 2016

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The book itself needs no commentary, an epochal classic. I want to comment on the presentation, i.e. this particular Penguin books edition. Not to judge a book by its cover, but still it is important to the pleasure of reading that the object one holds in one's hands meet certain aesthetic standards - and that the cover be somehow suitable to the content. So it's no faint praise to say that this is one of the few editions of Henry Miller's books that is actually pleasing to the eye. Outside of the New Directions titles and the now-rare Olympia Press and Obelisk Press editions published in Paris, Miller's books seem to be stubbornly fated to cheap tasteless cover designs - of which the absolute nadir has to be the Grove Press editions of the 1960s, which are still omnipresent. The cover design for this Penguin edition of the two "Tropics" is for once tasteful, and the artwork appropriate to the contents.

This being said, I am surprized - particularly given this is a Penguin edition - by the poor quality of the text printed here. Typos abound on nearly every page - even gross errors like incomplete sentences. It looks to me like some poor beast at Penguin was assigned to re-type the whole novel based on a previous printed edition, and were not all that into what they were reading... and nobody else bothered to read it again after they were done.

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