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On Henry Miller - Or, How to Be an Anarchist (Hardcover)
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On Henry Miller - Or, How to Be an Anarchist (Hardcover)
Series: Writers on Writers
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An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how
his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned
nightmare" of the modern world The American writer Henry Miller's
critical reputation--if not his popular readership-has been in
eclipse at least since Kate Millett's blistering critique in Sexual
Politics, her landmark 1970 study of misogyny in literature and
art. Even a Miller fan like the acclaimed Scottish writer John
Burnside finds Miller's "sex books"-including The Rosy Crucifixion,
Tropic of Cancer, and Tropic of Capricorn-"boring and
embarrassing." But Burnside says that Miller's notorious image as a
"pornographer and woman hater" has hidden his vital, true
importance-his anarchist sensibility and the way it shows us how,
by fleeing from conformity of all kinds, we may be able to save
ourselves from the "air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern world.
Miller wrote that "there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a
world which is crazy," and in this short, engaging, and personal
book, Burnside shows how Miller teaches us to become less adapted
to the world, to resist a life sentence to the prison of social,
intellectual, emotional, and material conditioning. Exploring the
full range of Miller's work, and giving special attention to The
Air-Conditioned Nightmare and The Colossus of Maroussi, Burnside
shows how, with humor and wisdom, Miller illuminates the
misunderstood tradition of anarchist thought. Along the way,
Burnside reflects on Rimbaud's enormous influence on Miller, as
well as on how Rimbaud and Miller have influenced his own writing.
An unconventional and appealing account of an unjustly neglected
writer, On Henry Miller restores to us a figure whose searing
criticism of the modern world has never been more relevant.
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