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TROPIC OF CANCER
de Miller, Henry
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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New York: Medvsa/Medusa, 1940. First Paperback Edition, Variant Binding. Softcover. Octavo, 322 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in purple paper wraps with plain spine faded to beige. Wrinkling to spine, uneven sunning to covers. Text block shows moderate age toning to edges and light age toning to pages generally, increasing to moderate age toning at top edge. Shelved in Case 2. "Up to the present, my idea of collaborating with myself has been to get off the gold standard of literature. My idea briefly has been to present a resurrection of the emotions, to depict the conduct of a human being in the stratosphere of ideas, that is, in the grip of delirium." (Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer). Miller's entire body of work may well be characterized by the concept of "self-collaboration" -- breaking out of long-held literary molds to become reacquainted with his own self and experience. He highlighted this autobiographical or confessional shift by the inclusion of a quote from Emerson prefacing the 1961 Grove Press edition of Tropic of Cancer: "These novels will give way, by and by, to diaries or autobiographies-captivating books, if only a man knew how to choose among what he calls his experiences that which is really his experience, and how to record truth truly." Known largely for the charges of obscenity leveled against it, and its nearly three-decade censorship in the United States, Tropic of Cancer is now recognized as something much more: an uncompromising attempt at self-revelation, and the pursuit of a prose style up to the task.
This is the first American edition, privately printed in this pirated version of 1000 copies by Jacob Brussel under the fictitious imprint of 'New York / Medusa.' An overrun of 200 to 500 unbound sheets were printed for later distribution, accounting for the nine variants which followed this first issue. The First Paperback Edition, also the Seventh Medusa Variant. Printed in Mexico, it precedes the authorized (Grove Press, 1961) American edition by more than two decades. References: Shifreen & Jackson A9Q. 1313761. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
This is the first American edition, privately printed in this pirated version of 1000 copies by Jacob Brussel under the fictitious imprint of 'New York / Medusa.' An overrun of 200 to 500 unbound sheets were printed for later distribution, accounting for the nine variants which followed this first issue. The First Paperback Edition, also the Seventh Medusa Variant. Printed in Mexico, it precedes the authorized (Grove Press, 1961) American edition by more than two decades. References: Shifreen & Jackson A9Q. 1313761. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Sinopsis
Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer is one of the most notoriously and frequently censored books in the history of American literature. In a combination of autobiography and fiction, the novel centers of Miller’s own life as a struggling writer in Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is written in the first person and lacks linear organization, two of Miller’s most favored techniques. Some chapters are narratives about Miller’s friends and workplaces, and others are stream-of-consciousness-style reflections, but all of the chapters touch on the sexual exploits and general low-life ruthlessness in which the author had engaged at the time. Tropic of Cancer was first published by Obelisk Press, a French publisher of soft pornography, in Paris in 1934. Shortly thereafter, the novel was banned in the US and later tried for charges of obscenity, a trial that challenged American pornography laws at the time. In 1961, the ban of Tropic of Cancer was lifted, and later that year, Grove Press published the first US edition of the novel, but only after the firm’s Barney Rosset offered Miller a sizeable advance and promised to defend the author in any future legal battles regarding the publication. Grove Press’s edition of Tropic of Cancer sold over 1 million copies by the end of 1961… and was the subject of about 60 lawsuits as well, one of which involved the American Civil Liberties Union. All of this hullabaloo makes one wonder what the reactions might have been if Miller had decided to go with the novel’s working title, Crazy Cock — which was, ironically, far more modest than the published version. Regardless, the novel’s 1970 film adaptation, directed by Joseph Strick, received an X rating (meaning no one 17 and under admitted). Today, Tropic of Cancer finds itself ranked 50th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century and 59th on The Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels.
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- Librería
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1313761
- Título
- TROPIC OF CANCER
- Autor
- Miller, Henry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Paperback Edition, Variant Binding
- Editorial
- Medvsa/Medusa
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1940
- Palabras clave
- Writing the Self, American Literature
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