Life, as no other modern author has lived it or can write it, bursts from these pages the life of the mind and the body of people, places and things of ideas and the imagination. The young Miller is angry, passionate, lewd, a fiery prophet of sexual and intellectual freedom, and an incorrigible prankster dedicated to the subversion of America's stale moral code.
And in the critical and philosophical essays, the prose poems and surrealist fantasies, the travel sketches and scenarios, Miller s passion for fiction, for telling the endless story of his extraordinary life, cannot be held down. Riotous, rude and explosive, Tropic of Capricorn chronicles Henry Miller's early life in New York. The unforgettable portrait of Max, the Paris drifter, and the probably autobiographical Tailor Shop, are basically short stories, but even here the irrepressible vitality of Miller s personality keeps breaking into the narrative. As is usual with Miller, these pieces cannot be tagged with the label of any given literary category. They are taken from the Paris books Black Spring 1936 and Max and the White Phagocytes 1938 and were for the most part, written at about the satire time as Tropic of Capricorn the period of Miller’s and Durrell s life in the famous Villa Seurat in Paris. This collection, first published by New Directions in 1939, contains a number of Henry Miller’s most important shorter prose writings.
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