| Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred Contributor(s): Turner, Frederick (Author), Miller, Henry (Author), Turner, Fredrick (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0811211851 ISBN-13: 9780811211857 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1991 Annotation: Miller, Into the Heart of Life. excerpts from ten of Henry Miller's books |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 818.520 |
| LCCN: 91029996 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.37" W x 7.93" (0.55 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The delights of his prose are many, not the least of which is Miller's comic irony, which as The London Times noted, can be as stringent and urgent as Swift's. Frederick Turner has organized the whole to highlight the autobiographical chronology of Miller's life, and along the way places the author squarely where he belongs--in the great tradition of American radical individualism, as a child of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Miller, who joyously declared I am interested--like God--only in the individual, would have been pleased. The keynotes here are self-liberation and the pleasures of Miller's knotty, cross-grained genius, as Turner describes it--defying classification, ultimately unamenable to any vision, any program not [his] own. Or, as Henry Miller himself put it: I am the hero and the book is myself. |
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.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. |