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I adore Henry Miller. He is all the bad things they say. I have a thing for deviants that turn a pretty phrase.
Henry Miller's Paris is the Paris of Balzac, Zola, Sartre and Camus. It is the Paris I first fell in love with growing up, and really has nothing to do with an existing tangible city. It is the Paris of art and artists, sex and sensuality, fever and ferment, comprising all extremes and no comfort - "the whole gamut from the abyss to the stars".
It is obscene, tragic, a watercolour of madness and ecstasy. His writing style is beautiful and flows from one to the other, back and forth in time and ...more
It is obscene, tragic, a watercolour of madness and ecstasy. His writing style is beautiful and flows from one to the other, back and forth in time and ...more
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