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Title	:	Tropic of Cancer
Author	:	Henry Miller
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 318 pages
Published	:	January 6th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1934)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. American

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

Paperback | Pages: 318 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 59666 Users | 3082 Reviews

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Now hailed as an American classic Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."

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Original Title:	Tropic of Cancer
ISBN:	0802131786 (ISBN13: 9780802131782)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Paris(France) Montparnasse, Paris(France)

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In short, I think Tropic of Cancer is a masterwork. Do read it! However let me yield the floor to George Orwell who's done far more thinking about the novel than I -- from his essay "Inside the Whale."http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartb...

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written. This is one of those amazing books that does violence to your system (think Lolita, Naked Lunch, Ulysses) but still leaves you gobsmacked by its brilliance. IT is the brazen, tortured soul of a man going through an existential crises in Paris. The novel is a cry in the dark; a delirious shout in the void. Miller's prose dances on the edge of the cracked mirror of

I'm usually quite a fan of zeitgeist crystallization in literature. Here is a true account/fiction which places a smudgy magnifying glass to the underbelly of a famed city. Paris has NEVER been described THIS ugly!The protagonist is Mr. Miller, and he lives in absolute poverty, which enhances his artist's eye. He transcends the tangibility and heaviness of matter...Anyway, I know this was controversial and even banned for decades because of the sexual depictions and language. This is from the

So, I was glancing through some of the reviews here and noticed that someone has totally disparaged this book because its hero is immoral. It always bewilders me when people judge a book according to the moral judgment that they pass on its characters. Like when I was looking at the reviews of John Updikes Run, Rabbit and saw a woman saying that she hated the book because Angstrom left his wife twice in the book. I was like, dont take it personally, lady; hes not your husband. A lot of people do

I feel like I have been reading this for a thousand years.After reading Anais Nin's The Delta of Venus some months ago, Miller appeared on my radar. It seemed only natural to follow up her collection with something of his, given their well-known relationship. Plus, Tropic of Cancer, Miller's semi-autobiographical memoir from his time in Paris, was a banned book in the U.S. after its publication in 1934. It wasn't until 30 years later that the Supreme Court deemed it "non-obscene". I love the

The only reason this book is a classic is because men were editors and this book gave them boners. And then male readers had boners and women were shocked with Miller's vocabulary. So, it wasnt that difficult to become a classic. Especially in those days, when a word cunt was such a taboo. But, again who am I joking, I have a few Irish/English male friends who blush when somebody says cunt around them. And they love Miller, so I think that's the individual matter of upbringing and bon ton,

My fiction addictionHad lost all its frictionI needed raw meat but this new stuff was veggiePredictable, safe, and not bold, tough and edgyI thought Tropic of CancerWould be the answerFor years it was bannedThroughout every landBut five c words per pageSuppressed masculine rageAnd tours of French pudendaWas his only agendaSo reading Henry MillerJust made me feel illerAnd illerAnd illerAnd iller