Författare: Henry Miller

The acclaimed author of The Tropic of Cancer recounts his 1928 trip to the City of Light and his troubled second marriage in this vivid memoir.Published for the first time in English, Paris 1928 (Nex …

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The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to …

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 …

In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris, leaving behind — at least temporarily — his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that had sprung from his anguish over her love affair wit …

Uncovered along with Crazy Cock in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Dearborn, Moloch emerged from the misery of Miller’s years at Western Union and from the squalor of his first marriage. Set in the …

Nexus, the last book of Henry Miller’s epic trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, is widely considered to be one of the landmarks of American fiction. In it, Miller vividly recalls his many years as a down-a …

This tender and nostalgic work dates from the same period as Tropic of Cancer (1934). It is a celebration of love, art, and the Bohemian life at a time when the world was simpler and slower, and Mill …

Henry Miller’s monumental venture in self-revelation was begun with his Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, which on their American publication were hailed as ’miraculous, ’ ’superb, ’ ’ribald, …

Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank p …

In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opu …

Henry Miller’s Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in 1949 with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L’Affa …

’Henry, der Geld brauchte, schlug mir vor, er werde für mich verkäufliche Texte schreiben. Ich bot ihm ein Honorar von einem Dollar pro Seite, dafür erhielt ich alle Rechte … Ich bezahlte immer bar …

Mit diesem jahrzehntelang verketzerten und verbotenen Buch fegte der einst verfemte, heute weltberühmte Autor alle Tabus hinweg. Es war der erste heftige Angriff gegen eine Gesellschaft, die den Bode …

Auch in diesem inzwischen weltberühmten und verfilmten Buch zeigt sich der unsterbliche Henry Miller als Prophet und Moralist. Jahrelang musste er auf die Veröffentlichung warten. Denn «Stille Tage i …

Unbekümmert um alle moralischen und formalen Schranken und mitgerissen von der Sturzflut der Erinnerung, hat Miller in diesem «obszönsten seiner Bücher» (New York Times) ein Stück seines turbulenten …

Das erzählerische Kabinettstück Henry Millers: Die Geschichte vom Clown, der sich nicht damit zufriedengeben mag, die Leute zum Lachen zu bringen, sondern ihnen Glückseligkeit schenken will. Ein selt …

Henry Miller: Provokateur, Hedonist und großer Erzähler Wie kein anderer großer Autor zuvor rüttelte Henry Miller an den sexuellen Tabus des 20. Jahrhunderts. In seinen berühmten Novellen erzählt er …

Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature. …

Few topics have inspired as much international furor and misinformation as the development and distribution of genetically altered foods. For thousands of years, farmers have bred crops for their res …

“The first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction.” —T. S. Eliot As over-the-top as it is inventive, Durrell’s breakthrough …

The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to …

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America’s Most Unusual Writer…In this fascinating volume, devoted to the work of one of the most dynamic, controversial and unusual living American writers, you will find many eloquent and moving t …

’New York is an aquarium … where there are nothing but hellbenders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks’In 1935 Henry Miller set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his …

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller’s first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century Tropic of Cancer redefin …

’Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy’Looking back to Henry Miller’s bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an obs …

Nexus is the third volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller’s major life work The exhilarating final volume of Henry Miller’s semi-autobiographical trilogy, Nexus follows h …

Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller’s major life work Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence …

A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel, Tropic of Cancer A story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked rea …

In The World of Sex, Henry Miller, one of the most scandalous writers of the 20th century explains his literary project Henry Miller’s bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the literat …

’Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light’Enraptured by a young woman’s account of the landscapes of Greece, …

Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller’s major life work Exploring one man’s desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry Mill …

The “uproariously funny” second book in the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, “may be Miller’s masterpiece” (Choice).   “Plexus is the core volume in The Rosy Crucifi …

Henry Miller’s famously banned book is “a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one’s dreary life and following your heart to Paris” (Richard Price).   Now hailed as an …

Eine Huldigung an Freunde aus lang vergangenen Zeiten Henry Miller, der große Tabubrecher der modernen Literatur, war zeitlebens nie bloßer Zuschauer, sondern immer Mitleidender, Mitfreudiger, Mitsch …

Dieses Buch, Autobiographie, Tagebuch intimsten Erlebens, leidenschaftlicher Selbsterkenntnis, erzählt von Millers Jugend in New York. Unter Außenseitern und kleinbürgerlichen Existenzen lebt er mit …

Mit ’Nexus’ nimmt Henry Miller die Fäden wieder auf, die er in ’Plexus’ angesponnen hat. Unvergessene Gestalten erscheinen wieder, neue treten hinzu. Ausgeprägte Charaktere mit unverkennbarer Physiog …

Zehn Jahre lang hatte Henry Miller das Leben im kulturträchtigen Europa genossen, als ihn der drohende Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs zur Rückkehr in die neue Welt zwang. Um sich mit dem Land auszus …

Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s …

In his great triptych ’The Millennium, ’ Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. In his great triptych “The Millennium, ” Bosch used oranges and other fruits to sym …

A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as ’the Voltaire of the Nile’ Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery’s bi …

“A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” —Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Som …

This study is not literary criticism but a fascinating chapter in Miller’s own spiritual autobiography. The social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and thi …

In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.  Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences wh …

An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdom In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his comma …

Aller Retour New York is truly vintage Henry Miller, written during his most creative period, between Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). Aller Retour New …

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 …

“A perfect expression of Miller’s moral perspective as well as one of his outstanding demonstrations of narrative skill. It provides a wonderful cinematic view of two indomitable egotists in deadly c …

One of Henry Miller’s most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life,   Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many o …

’I always carry over 40, 000 gold francs about with me in my belt. They weight about 40 pounds, and I am beginning to get dysentery from the load.’ A collection of stories and excerpts from longer wo …

Henry Miller called The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder his “most singular story.”  First published in 1959, this touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but …

In celebration of the centennial of his birth,  Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred gathers a captivating selection of writings from ten of his books. The delights of his pr …

A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell. In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in …

His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls. In 1939, after ten years as an e …

Der Autor der vielumstrittenen «Wendekreis»-Bücher bekennt sich hier mit leidenschaftlicher Diesseitsfrömmigkeit zu einem Leben fern aller Zivilisation, in ursprünglichem Einverständnis von Mensch un …

A “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).   This exchange of letters between the t …

Una verdadera joya en la que Henry Miller viaja de la literatura a la vida y viceversa. El mapa mental de uno de los genios más sobresalientes del siglo XX. Indispensable.De la literatura a la vida y …

Dieses Buch, teils leidenschaftliches Plädoyer, teils biographia literaria, gibt, wie Lawrence Durrell in seinem Vorwort schreibt, «dem Leser den Schlüssel zum Universum Millers». Es entstand zwische …

Eine Reise nach Griechenland Henry Millers berühmtes Griechenland-Buch entstand 1940, nachdem er im Jahr zuvor fünf Reisemonate in dem mythenträchtigen Land verbracht hatte. Ein faszinierender Erfahr …

Henry Millers grandioser Versuch einer Ortsbestimmung des Menschen unserer Zeit – aber auch eines der berühmt-berüchtigtsten Bücher unserer Zeit. Miller leuchtet die dunklen Ecken aus, reißt alle Tüc …

Der Einzelne und die Gesellschaft, kreative Freiheit und Konformismus, American way of life und Europa – das sind die großen Themen der Texte, die hier erstmals gesammelt vorgelegt werden: streitbare …

I have gone through some ruff and crazy times in my life. I have traveled the word and experienced different things in my life. From being raised by a pimp and drug dealer to having a great job and l …

Wer war Henry Miller wirklich? Im Gespräch mit seinem langjährigen Freund und Übersetzer Georges Belmont äußerte der große Romancier und Außenseiter der amerikanischen Literatur sehr persönliche Geda …

Acht Porträts, die aus dem Rahmen fallen. Sieben der liebevoll-spitzfindigen Betrachtungen Henry Millers gelten Weggefährten aus Fleisch und Blut – die achte und zugleich letzte richtete er an sein F …

Trópico de Câncer (Tropic of Cancer) foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1934, na França e teve sua publicação e importação proibida nos Estados Unidos até 1961 em função da linguagem  nua e crua adot …

Primeira obra de Henry Miller, Trópico de Câncer é um dos grandes clássicos da literaturanorte-americana. Publicado orginalmente em 1934, em Paris, o romance foi imediatamente proibido em todos os pa …

Segundo romance do emblemático Henry Miller e sucessor de Trópico de Câncer. Publicado originalmente em 1939, este livro foi aclamado como parte da revolução sexual. Trópico de Capricórnio mantém a s …

Joey – so nannte Henry Miller seinen Freund Alfred Perlès, dem er mit diesem Buch ein liebevolles Denkmal setzte. Er erzählt von den Jahren in Paris, als er den immer strahlenden, vergnügten «Windhun …

In der Schilderung unbürgerlicher Schicksale und grotesker Situationen erweist sich Henry Miller auch hier als Erzähler von hinreißendem Temperament und als Verfechter ungehemmter Daseinsfreude. …