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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
A struggling American writer lives among bohemians in Paris
The narrator, "Henry Miller," is a struggling writer in a community of Paris bohemians in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He faces hunger, homelessness and loneliness and grieves his recent separation from his wife. The narrative moves between past and present and mixes conventional episodes with stream-of-consciousness passages. Obelisk Press published it in Paris in 1934, and U.S. Customs banned the Paris edition from being imported.
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Who
The narrator Henry Miller, and friends including Boris, Carl, Fillmore and Van Norden.
World
Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
What makes it different
Grove Press published it legally in the U.S. in 1961, which led to numerous obscenity lawsuits. In 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court overruled state findings that it was obscene.
Feel
Raw and rambling.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- Tropic of CancerWikipedia