Paris 1928

Henry Miller

Juli 2012 · Bolinda · Vorgelesen von Lynn Hard

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“That night I didn’t sleep a wink. It wasn’t the bedbugs that kept me awake, it was Europe, the horror and misery, which penetrated it through and through.” Henry Miller's Nexus was censored fifty years ago, while Miller and his publishers fought for freedom of speech. Nexus II was never published, and looks at his first trip to Paris and Europe in 1928, a world on the edge of the great depression. Paris 1928 collates these unpublished memoirs as Henry Miller wished, together with the censored pages from Nexus.

Autoren-Profil

American author Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) was a major force in literature in the late 1950s, largely because his two most important novels, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, were banned from publication and sale in the United States for many years for its sexual content. Tropic of Cancer was a loosely constructed autobiographical novel describing his struggles during his first years in Paris. His work’s freedom of language and subject helped lead the way for Beat Generation writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Lynn Hard was born in 1938 in Texas and grew up in Los Angeles. He came to Australia in 1977 and retired in 1998 as the chief librarian at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He has written and performed his poetry since the late '50s. He has 3 books of poems out with a 4th soon to appear. He lives in Sydney with his partner Helen and an unmanageably large collection of jazz recordings.