Henry Miller wrote autobiographical fiction, essays and travel writing about art, sexuality, poverty, freedom and the life of an expatriate writer. Tropic of Cancer draws on his years in Paris, moving through rented rooms, cafés, sexual encounters, friendships and arguments about literature in a deliberately loose narrative form. Tropic of Capricorn looks back towards New York and employment before his European years, while Black Spring combines memory and experimental prose around childhood, city life and artistic identity. Miller's work is explicit, digressive and often closer to a stream of episodes, reflections and provocations than to conventional plot. The books were also important in twentieth-century censorship disputes, making publication history part of their cultural context. His work fits modernist and autobiographical fiction, expatriate literature and sexual candour. Tropic of Cancer is the main point of entry, but readers should expect a fragmented, voice-driven book rather than a tightly structured novel. Read more Less
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