wilderness of
the bush. Inner and outer have changed places. Equilibrium is no longer the
goal - the scales must be destroyed. Let me hear you promise again all those
sunny things you carry inside you. Let me try to believe for one day, while
I rest in the open, that the sun brings good tidings. Let me rot in
splendour while the sun bursts in your womb. I believe all your lies
implicitly. I take you as the personification of evil, as the destroyer of
the soul, as the Maharanee of the night. Tack your womb up on my wall, so
that I may remember you. We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow...
September 1938 Villa Seurat, Paris.
MODERN CLASSIC
Henry Miller
Crazy Cock
With a foreword by Erica Jong
In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris, leaving behind (at
least temporarily) his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel he
fully expected to be his masterpiece. Begun in 1927, and originally titled
Lovely Lesbians, Crazy Cock sprang from his anguish over June's love affair
with a mysterious woman called Jean Kronski. Purging himself of this pain
through the writing of Crazy Cock helped Miller to discover his true voice a
few years later in Tropic of Cancer.
'It is a shame that Miller is not around to report on the War of the
Hormones. Crazy Cock is a dispatch from the front. His critics will use the
novel's sexual and political incorrectness to disguise the reality that he
understood the ever-present prejudices and confusions of women and men
better than any of the talk-show munchkins. Crazy Cock is full of the sheer
force of Miller's language and the sexual pitch and youthful literary
eagerness which start cafe brawls and outrage high-school librarians.'
London Review of Books
'Miller's account of the writer's misery is vivid and affecting and he
tells his story with feeling. At times it is so raw it hurts, at other times
the rawness manifests itself in an exhilarating spontaneity.' Sunday
Telegraph
MODERN CLASSIC
Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
With an introduction by Robert Nye
A penniless and as yet unpublished writer. Henry Miller arrived in
Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy
career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of Bohemian Paris with
unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the
prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse,
Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of
unrivalled eroticism and freedom.
'A rhapsody deriving from Whitman, Joyce, Lawrence and Celine, Tropic
of Cancer is a ranting, randy book carried along by a deep, sensual
enjoyment of living. ' Sunday Times
'Tropic of Cancer is a great prophetic book, a warning of what deadens
life, an affirmation that it can yet be lived, though with extreme
difficulty, in an age whose sterile non-cultures seek to thwart all
mainsprings of fertility. Miller reveals himself as a battered faun, a
crafty innocent, a lonely, lazy, sometimes fearful, always steadfast,
worshipper of life. ' Colin Maclnnes, Spectator
MODERN CLASSIC
Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
With an introduction by John Pilger
'The best war novel to come out of the United States.' The Times
The Naked and the Dead traces the story of a platoon of young American
soldiers as they pick their way, through treacherous terrain, across the
Japanese-held Pacific island of Anopopei. Caught up in the confusion of
close-armed combat, preyed upon by snipers, the men are pushed to the limit
of human endurance. Held together only by the raw will to survive and barely
sustained dreams of life beyond the maelstrom, each man finds his innermost
hopes and deepest fears laid bare by the unrelenting stress of battle.
In his early twenties Mailer was himself a Second World War combatant
in the Far-Eastern theatre. Published three years after the war ended. The
Naked and the Dead, a shattering masterpiece of nightmarish realism,
catapulted Mailer to instant fame.
'Mailer recorded every foul thought and word of his characters, wrote
about ignorant, savage, primitive men . . . For maturity of viewpoint, for
technical competence, and for stark dramatic power. The Naked and the Dead
is an incredibly finished performance. ' New York Times
'Mailer writes like an angel - a master of small surprises that are
precursors of seismic shocks.' London Review of Books
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