by Henry Miller · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420424002
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«Trópico de Capricornio» is Henry Miller's autobiographical novel, published by Alfaguara in paperback (417 pages, in Spanish).
The autobiographical narrative follows a Western Union employee and combines his sexual, work, and family experiences with a fierce critique of American society, its hypocrisy, and its conventions. Miller champions individual freedom through provocative, philosophical prose with acerbic humor.
Translation by Carlos Manzano. Original work: “Tropic of Capricorn” (1939). Literatura Alfaguara collection, no. 21, Madrid, 1978.
For readers seeking classics of twentieth-century American 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.
