Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer (Original title: Tropic of Cancer ) is the title of the 1934 published novel by Henry Miller .
Release history
The book was published in 1934 by Jack Kahane in his English-language Parisian publisher Obelisk Press ; Miller's lover Anaïs Nin had obtained money for printing from the psychoanalyst Otto Rank , who was working in Paris at the time . Kahane had geared his publishing house to the English and American tourists in Paris, who he served with literature on the border between eroticism and pornography, which is also banned in France, he initially wrote the titles himself under a pseudonym, his bestseller was Frank Harris ' amorous autobiography Mein Life and love . Kahane advised Paris booksellers not to put Miller's book in the shop window.
The book could not be imported into or printed in the United States. It faced multiple trials and imprisonment in the United States until it was released for printing and distribution in the 1960s as part of the so-called Sexual Revolution . The book was also banned in Great Britain, and Williams was arrested on arrival and sent back to France on the next ferry.
The book was indexed in the Federal Republic for a while , which means it could not be offered or advertised publicly. The first German edition, translated by Kurt Wagenseil , was printed in 1953 in a one-time, limited and numbered edition of 1500 copies; the second edition appeared as a revised translation, and with the translated preface by Anaïs Nin, 1962.
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Miller wrote the novel between 1930 and 1932, based in part on his own experiences in Paris during those years.
The novel is written in the style of undated diary entries, in which clearly sexual descriptions, general philosophical considerations and often surrealistic and burlesque exaggerated everyday situations alternate. The chronology is difficult to understand because associative elements are integrated into the narrative flow.
reception
In 1940, George Orwell spoke of one of the greatest novels of his time in his essay Inside the Whale .
Joseph Strick filmed the book in 1970 with Rip Torn (Henry Miller), James T. Callahan (Fillmore) and Ellen Burstyn (Mona Miller) in the leading roles.
In 1939 Henry Miller published the novel Tropic of Capricorn .
Book edition (German)
- Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer . Translation by Kurt Wagenseil. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek, ISBN 978-3-499-14361-8
Audio book
- Tropic of Cancer. Reading , total running time 438 min., With 1 booklet: 8 pages, speaker Werner Wölbern , audio book version Caren Fischer. Directed by Gottfried von Eine. The Audio Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3-89813-446-0
literature
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Frederick W. Turner : Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0-300-14949-4
- Jeanette Winterson : The Male Mystique of Henry Miller , review of the book by Turner. In: The New York Times , January 26, 2012
Web links
- Tropic of Cancer (1970) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wilko Steffens: The artist as a monster: On Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer".
- Tropic of Cancer. (Table of contents).
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Perlès : My Friend Henry Miller. An intimate biography . New York: John Day, 1956, pp. 101-105.
- ^ Karl Shapiro : Introduction . In: Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer , New York: Grove Press, 2007 (1961), ISBN 978-0-8021-3178-2 , SX