Black Spring

Henry Miller

Dec 2007 · Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

About this ebook

Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit.

Ratings and reviews

Henry Miller reasserts the personification of the authentic, American writer, almost in a poetic sense. His predecessors, Thoreau, Twain and Whitman, paved the way for the colorful, surrealistic commmentary from this "boy from Brooklyn", who bares naked the not only the ugly and beautiful reality of America in its early, Modern period, but ultimately, the fabric of the human condition itself. .

A typical Henry Miller- misogynistic, scinical but somehow has a ring of truth on many levels.

About the author

Miller, a writer, travelled through Southwest U.S. and Alaska with money from his father that was intended to finance him through Cornell. He moved to France in 1930 for 9 years and wrote Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.