Henry Miller
American novelist (1891-1980) · United States · Writers · Died at 88
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Something wrong?He wrote novels so sexually explicit they were banned in America for three decades - but the obscenity was the vehicle, not the point. Miller dissolved the boundaries between fiction and confession, building a form where philosophy, surrealism, and raw experience bled together on the page.
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, She was to me, and still is, the greatest person I have known - one who can truly be called a "devoted" soul. I owe her everything.
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.
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About this person
Henry Valentine Miller was born December 26, 1891, and spent his early decades between New York City and Paris, the twin poles that would furnish his most radical work. He broke with conventional narrative and invented a hybrid: semi-autobiographical novels that folded social criticism, mysticism, stream of consciousness, and explicit sex into a single restless form. Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the three-volume The Rosy Crucifixion drew directly from his life in those cities, and all were banned in the United States until 1961. Beyond the novels he wrote travel memoirs, literary criticism, and painted watercolors. He died June 7, 1980, decades after the censors gave up.
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