by Henry Miller · B Ediciones · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788466309059
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«Trópico de Cáncer» is Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical novel, published by B Ediciones in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
The narrator, a penniless American writer living in 1930s Paris, blends memory and fiction to tell of his days among cheap boarding houses, bohemian friendships and sexual encounters. The raw tone portrays poverty, desire and the search for freedom, challenging the moral and literary conventions of the era.
Henry Miller's first novel and first instalment of the «Tropic» series. Originally published in Paris in 1934, it was banned in the United States until 1962. Spanish edition from 2003.
For readers of classic fiction and transgressive narrative, with an interest in censored works that later became literary benchmarks.
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.
