Bøger af Henry Miller

In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise.

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.As is usual with Miller, these pieces cannot be tagged with the label of any given literary category. 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. 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. 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 social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and this book is perhaps his most poignant and concentrated analysis of the artist's dilemma.

Oversat til dansk af Torben Jahnsen.Fra den store Amerikarejse, i perioden 1940-41, foreligger beretninger og essays, Det airconditionerede mareridt, hvis udgivelse måtte vente helt til 1947.Bogen, der i sprog og stil lever op til noget af det bedste Henry Miller har skrevet, dækker en lang række emner; den amerikanske natur; forbrydelse og straf; indianernes skæbne; negrenes forhold; frygten for en invasion; krigen i Europa; Hollywoods stjerneliv og m.m., og emnerne behandles og beskrives på en sådan måde at man, gang på gang, må spørge sig selv om dette virkelig er skrevet for næsten 70 år siden. Ikke tidligere oversat til dansk.

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