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The Henry Miller Reader (Paperback)
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The Henry Miller Reader (Paperback)
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Loot Price R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in the
American Institute of Arts and Letters, the citation described him
as: "The veteran author of many books whose originality and
richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his
subject matter. His boldness of approach and intense curiosity
concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of
our times." It is most fitting that this anthology of "the best" of
Henry Miller should have been assembled by one of the first among
Miller's contemporaries to recognize his genius, the eminent
British writer Lawrence Durrell. Drawing material from a dozen
different books Durrell has traced the main line and principal
themes of the "single, endless autobiography" which is Henry
Miller's life work. "I suspect," writes Durrell in his
Introduction, "that Miller's final place will be among those
towering anomalies of authorship like Whitman or Blake who have
left us, not simply works of art, but a corpus of ideas which
motivate and influence a whole cultural pattern." Earlier, H. L.
Mencken had said, "his is one of the most beautiful prose styles
today," and the late Sir Herbert Read had written that "what makes
Miller distinctive among modern writers is his ability to combine,
without confusion, the aesthetic and prophetic functions." Included
are stories, "portraits" of persons and places, philosophical
essays, and aphorisms. For each selection Miller himself prepared a
brief commentary which fits the piece into its place in his life
story. This framework is supplemented by a chronology from Miller's
birth in 1891 up to the spring of 1959, a bibliography, and, as an
appendix, an open letter to the Supreme Court of Norway written in
protest of the ban on Sexus, a part of which appears in this
volume.
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