An edition of Henry Miller, the Paris years (1995)

Henry Miller, the Paris years

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An edition of Henry Miller, the Paris years (1995)

Henry Miller, the Paris years

1st English language ed.
  • 2 Want to read

Miller didn't just inhabit Paris, he devoured it. Not the Paris of the guidebooks, but the City of Light's lurid backways and backwaters, the dens of vice where he could slough off the pale cast of American puritanism and embrace the hedonistic facts of life. The Parisian life of the "Happy Rock," as Miller liked to call himself, was a turbulent quest for new sensations and avenues, a roisterous, slumming exploration of the soul.

This world Miller shared with Brassai, whose work, first collected in Paris by Night, established him as one of the greatest photographers of our century. Miller and Brassai's friendship was a recognition of kindred spirits, born of mutual admiration for each other's tireless, restless fascination with Paris and its inhabitants.

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In Miller, Brassai found his most compelling subject. Using unpublished letters, recollected conversations, and references to Miller's work - and featuring sixteen unforgettable examples of Brassai's photography - Henry Miller: The Paris Years is an intimate account of a writer's self-discovery, seen through the unblinking eye of a master photographer. Brassai delves into Miller's relationships with Anais Nin and Lawrence Durrell, as well as his hopelessly tangled though wildly inspiring marriage to June.

Brassai remembers Miller's favorite cafes and haunts, revives Miller's idols and anathemas (chief among which, a steady job), and evokes their shared passion for the street life of a Montparnasse and Montmartre captured, even during those depression years, in a dazzling moment of illumination.

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English
Pages
224

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Henry Miller, the Paris years
1995, Arcade Pub., Distributed by Litle, Brown and Co.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-224).

Published in
New York, [Boston, Mass.]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5209, B
Library of Congress
PS3525.I5454 Z65713 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
224 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
224

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1113360M
Internet Archive
henrymillerparis00bras
ISBN 10
1559702877
LCCN
94039261
OCLC/WorldCat
31515825
Library Thing
479470
Goodreads
466113

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