by Henry Miller · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422625674
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«Trópico de Cáncer» is Henry Miller's novel, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (315 pages, in Spanish).
Novel of a semi-autobiographical nature in which Henry Miller recounts his years as an expatriate writer in the Paris of the 1930s. The work portrays poverty, sex and bohemia, and its explicit language turned it into a work censored for decades in the United States and a benchmark of twentieth-century literature.
First instalment of the Tropic series, within the Biblioteca de Plata collection. Edition translated by Carlos Manzano, with a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa and a biographical sketch of José Luis Giménez-Frontín.
For readers interested in classic twentieth-century narrative and in works that marked the history of literary censorship.
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.
