Buy this book on-line FERGUSON, ROBERT: : HENRY MILLER - A LIFELONDON.HUTCHINSON,1991. ISBN 0091747805.
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A prophet of sensualism,a splendid bohemian and unashamed egoist,Henry Miller is seen by many as a remarkable and influential writer,by others still as
more a great phenomenon.In the year of the
centenary of his birth,award-winning biographer Robert Ferguson has written a sympathetic and revealing assessment.Henry
Miller was sixty-nine before his first major masterpiece Tropic of Cancer was legally published in the US,almost thirty
years after it had been written.Overnight he became a rich man and respectable doyen
of the American literary establishment,but
he had long since been recognised as a writer of rare talent and originality among his peers,who read his work in unexpurgated French editions smuggled into
the UK and US,and acclaimed Miller as a major figure in the struggle for literary and personal freedom.Struggle was the keynote of Miller's life.Born into the multi-national Brooklyn of the 1890's,the
son of a tailor of German extraction,he showed early signs of the freewheeling attitude to social codes that is the hallmark of his writing.After leaving school,he embarked on a series of jobs and emotionally complex sexual encounters which provided rich source material for his novels,eventually dropping out of conventional employment altogether in his quest to find himself as a writer.In this carefully researched biography,Robert Ferguson attempts to disentangle the kaleidoscopic personalities of the fictional Henry Miller and discover the identity behind the masks.His search takes
him through the literary and dropout communities of Greenwich Village and Paris
in the 1920's and '30's,and encompasses an array of famous names from Madame Blavatsky and Dostoevski to the extraordinary Anaias Nin with whom Miller had a ten-year love affair.This new biography reveals Miller as a complex and fascinating personality,a bewildering amalgam of vulnerability and outrageous insouciance,a writer of genius whose attempt to tell the truth with honesty and
courage condemned him to thirty years of official opprobrium - and won him the respect of Orwell,T.S. Eliot and Lawrence
Durrell,and the hero-worship of thousands.
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