| The Cosmological Eye Revised Edition Contributor(s): Miller, Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811201104 ISBN-13: 9780811201100 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1961 Annotation: This collection, first published by New Directions in 1939, contains a number of Henry Miller's most important shorter prose writings. They are taken from the Paris books Black Spring (1936) and Max and the White Phagocytes (1938) and were for the most part, written at about the same time as Tropic of Capricorn--the period of Miller's and Durrell's life in the famous Villa Seurat in Paris. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Fiction |
| Dewey: 818.520 |
| LCCN: 75088729 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.90 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: They are taken from the Paris books Black Spring (1936) and Max and the White Phagocytes (1938) and were for the most part, written at about the satire time as Tropic of Capricorn--the period of Miller's and Durrell's life in the famous Villa Seurat in Paris. As is usual with Miller, these pieces cannot be tagged with the label of any given literary category. The unforgettable portrait of Max, the Paris drifter, and the probably-autobiographical Tailor Shop, are basically short stories, but even here the irrepressible vitality of Miller's personality keeps breaking into the narrative. And in the critical and philosophical essays, the prose poems and surrealist fantasies, the travel sketches and scenarios, Miller's passion for fiction, for telling the endless story of his extraordinary life, cannot be held down. Life, as no other modern author has lived it or can write it, bursts from these pages--the life of the mind and the body; of people, places and things; of ideas and the imagination. |
Contributor Bio(s): Miller, Henry: - Henry Miller (1891--1980) was one of the most controversial American novelists during his lifetime. His book, The Tropic of Cancer, was banned in the some U.S. states before being overruled by the Supreme Court. New Directions publishes several of his books. |