Henry Miller
Henry Miller (1891–1980) was an American writer known for sexually explicit, autobiographical novels that were banned in the United States for decades. *Tropic of Cancer* and *Tropic of Capricorn* blend memoir, philosophy, and graphic sexuality in a stream-of-consciousness style.
The 1961 lifting of the U.S. ban on his work was a landmark censorship case.
Miller influenced the Beats and later countercultural writers.
France's chief city
- FranceWestern European republic
- Big SurCalifornia coastal region
- BrooklynWestern Long Island borough
- MontparnasseParis arts district
self-exile · cosmopolitan · émigré · transatlantic · wanderlust · Greece · cultural exchange · artistic community
Northern tropical boundary
- Tropic of CapricornSouthern solstice latitude marker
- PlexusInterwoven nerve bundle
- NexusGoogle's discontinued device brand
- autobiographicalConcerning one's own life
prose · stream-of-consciousness · experimental · surrealism · existentialism · postmodernism · American literature · confessional
Officially disallowed
- obscenityIndecent word or act
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- freedom of speechProtected right to speak
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
First Amendment · obscenity trial · expurgated · bowdlerized · contraband · intellectual freedom · indecency · moral panic
Rejects prevailing social standards
- free-spiritedUninhibited by social expectations
- unconventionalDeparting from standard practice
- anarchistOne opposing all governance
- rebelAuthority defier
maverick · hedonist · libertine · vagabond · flâneur · counterculture · artistic · avant-garde
Of bodily pleasure
- carnalRelating to physical urges
- explicitClearly and directly expressed
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- lustyVigorously healthy, often amorous
passionate · bodily · visceral · uninhibited · transgressive · candid · raw · primal
Paris
France's chief city
Montparnasse · self-exile · cosmopolitan · émigré · transatlantic · wanderlust · Greece · cultural exchange · artistic community · Left Bank
Tropic of Cancer
Northern tropical boundary
- Tropic of CapricornSouthern solstice latitude marker
- PlexusInterwoven nerve bundle
- NexusGoogle's discontinued device brand
autobiographical · prose · stream-of-consciousness · experimental · surrealism · existentialism · postmodernism · American literature · confessional · narrator
banned
Officially disallowed
- obscenityIndecent word or act
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- freedom of speechProtected right to speak
taboo · First Amendment · obscenity trial · expurgated · bowdlerized · contraband · intellectual freedom · indecency · moral panic · literary freedom
nonconformist
Rejects prevailing social standards
- free-spiritedUninhibited by social expectations
- unconventionalDeparting from standard practice
- anarchistOne opposing all governance
rebel · maverick · hedonist · libertine · vagabond · flâneur · counterculture · artistic · avant-garde · free-love
sensual
Of bodily pleasure
- carnalRelating to physical urges
- explicitClearly and directly expressed
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
lusty · passionate · bodily · visceral · uninhibited · transgressive · candid · raw · primal · desire
- Henrys
- 20th Century AuthorsErnest Hemingway, Hemingway, William Faulkner, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Authors MHerman Melville, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Mitchell, Stephenie Meyer
- Expatriate WritersErnest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Anais Nin
- Paris expatriatesLost Generation, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce
- Provocative WritersCharles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, Marquis de Sade, D.H. Lawrence
Henry MillerHenry James
"The Ambassadors" author
T.S. Eliot · Edith Wharton · E.M. Forster · Jane Austen · Thomas Mann
Henry MillerPearl S. Buck
Robert Frost · T.S. Eliot · Ernest Hemingway · John Steinbeck · Sinclair Lewis
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