by Henry Miller · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420424019
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«Trópico de Cáncer» is the novel by Henry Miller, published by Alfaguara in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Semiautobiographical novel that narrates the life of an American writer in 1930s Paris: poverty, sex and friendship in a bohemian and marginal city, portrayed without idealising it. Miller's direct and provocative style captures the search for individual freedom against the conventions of the era.
Translation by Carlos Manzano. First instalment of Henry Miller's «Tropic» series. Originally published in 1934.
For readers of twentieth-century classic fiction seeking a raw, unfiltered narrative; a work frequently cited among banned books.
Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York City and Paris, and all of which were banned in the United States until 1961. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism and painted watercolors.
