When I was young I figured out the easiest way to find good books was to look for anything that was banned anywhere. Even so, it took me a while to find Henry Miller.
I was working my first job in Corporate America when Tropic of Capricorn found me at just the right time. It was written about Miller’s experiences the 1930s but it seemed to be uncannily like what I was also experiencing. It seemed nothing had changed. Of course that was the point.
“nothing would be altered, I was convinced, except by a change of heart, and who could change the hearts of men?”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
It might not have offered much hope but it offered a perspective, and a realistic one. It was also hilarious. I’ve been a fan ever since.
A review of some later Henry Miller writing from The Marginalian.
Steven A. Guccione 