by Henry Miller · Bruguera · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402067067
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«Trópico de Cáncer» is Henry Miller's autobiographical novel, published by Bruguera in hardcover (346 pages, in Spanish).
The book recounts the author's alter ego's stay in Paris during the early 1930s, amid sexual experiences, bohemian life, and reflections on humanity in a time of crisis. Considered a groundbreaking work, it was banned in the United States for the explicitness of its scenes.
This edition is number 10 in the Club Bruguera collection, with a translation by Carlos Manzano. Original work published in 1934 under the title «Tropic of Cancer»; first installment of the Tropic series.
For readers interested in 20th-century American literature, cult novels, and classics that marked a turning point in narrative.
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.
