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The Henry Miller Reader
Paperback, 397 pages
Published
May 1st 1969
by New Directions Publishing Corporation
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The flights of fancy...the bursts of non sequential, original thought....yes Henry is a genius...maybe a cranky genius but a genius nonetheless.
I started off reading Henry Miller and became angry. I thought he was loose and overly self indulgent by getting off subject to proselytize about something that had just popped into his head. I still think that, but I'm not angry about it anymore. There were moments of poignancy in his uniqueness that struck heavy notes in me. I ended up realizing that perhaps it is I that am stuck; on structure. I love reading things that shake up the pieces in my brain.
I really enjoy Henry Miller's writing. I savored the letter/essay that he wrote to the high courts in Oslo when his books were being banned there. The essay is titled "Defense of the Freedom to Read".
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Henry Miller sought to reestablish the freedom to live without the conventional restraints of civilization. His books are potpourris of sexual description, quasi-philosophical speculation, reflection on literature and society, surrealistic imaginings, and autobiographical incident.
After living in Paris in the 1930s, he returned to the United States and settled in Big Sur, Calif. Miller's first tw...more
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