Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s with unapologetic gusto, and is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, ""one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."" The audiobook is narrated by acclaimed actor Campbell Scott.
Now hailed as an American classic, Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its initial publication in Paris in 1943; 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.
Anoniem
04/08/2024
A jumble of crass incoherence. I’m sure that back in the 1930s the book did a lot for the freedom to write bluntly and I’m sure calling every woman a c*nt and men fairies and doing so every other paragraph and endlessly recounting your numerous sexual enterprises and boasting of the awesome book you are writing was novel and risqué. Except now it mostly rings as infantile and tasteless. Overall it seems like Mr. Miller was seeking to establish what a manly man he was. Sure the language is lyrical in places and Miller knows his way around a dictionary, but content-wise it fails to be of interest and uphold itself almost a century later.
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