Quiet days in Clichy

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Stille Tage in Clichy (original title: Quiet Days in Clichy ) is the title of a novel with autobiographical features by Henry Miller .

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The novel is based on the experiences of Miller when he shared a small apartment with the Austrian Alfred Perlès in the Paris suburb of Clichy from 1933 . The setting is also the Paris of the 1930s between Place Clichy and Montmartre .

He tells of the literary bohemians Carl and Joey who lead dissolute lives despite their material modesty. The moment they get money, they spend it again on whores and partying. Sex stories with women, who are mostly professionals, are depicted episodically, whereby Miller contrasts the various sensitive character and relationship studies with a vulgar-chauvinistic male perspective.

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According to Miller's editorial note, the work was written at the end of May 1940 in New York. A revised original English version, completed in May 1956, was initially published in Paris, while it was banned in the USA and was only published there in 1965. The German translation came out in 1968.

  • English first edition: Quiet Days in Clichy . With photographs by Brassaï . The Olympia Press, Paris 1956
    • USA: Grove Press, New York 1965
    • Great Britain: Calder and Boyars, London 1966
  • German translation: Silent days in Clichy . German by Kurt Wagenseil . With 28 photos by Brassaï. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1968
    • Paperback: rororo 15161, ISBN 978-3-499-15161-3 (summarizes the two fragments of the novel "Stille Tage in Clichy" and "Mara Marignan")
    • Audiobook: 3 CDs (approx. 170 min). Read by Dominik Graf . With a booklet text by Henry Miller's son Tony and music by Venus 45. Roof-Music, Bochum 2004, ISBN 3-936186-51-0

Film adaptations

The book was filmed in 1970 by Jens Jørgen Thorsen and in 1990 by Claude Chabrol . The first film version in particular, the plot of which the Danish director moved to the late 1960s, attracted attention because of its permissiveness, which has been compared to pornography, and was not allowed to be shown in various countries.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Wunderlich: Book tips & film tips: Jens Jørgen Thorsen: Silent days in Clichy. , Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ Die Zeit, Scandal Books. No. 9/15, Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  3. ↑ Time, A Silent Henry Miller , 1968
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel: Love in Wine. No. 45, November 2, 1970, accessed October 3, 2012.