by Henry Miller · Ediciones El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669406
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«Trópico de Cáncer» is Henry Miller's novel, published by Ediciones El País in hardcover (362 pages, in Spanish).
Henry Miller's first novel, inspired by Anaïs Nin's unpublished diaries and published in Paris in 1934. It recounts the protagonist's bohemian life in the French capital with crude frankness: sexuality, poverty and individual freedom. The narrative attacks Puritanism and bourgeois morality and defies the literary conventions of its time.
Translation by Carlos Manzano. First installment of Miller's Tropic series. 20th-century Classics collection, number 20.
For readers of 20th-century classics and literary fiction, interested in transgressive works that were subject to censorship and legal debate.
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.
