Word: capricorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TROPIC OF CAPRICORN (348 pp.)-Henry Miller-Grove Press...
Whether it will or not, the U.S. has just been saddled with a second Tropic of literary conversation. Tropic A, published in the U.S. for the first time last year, was Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's long-banned wallow in Parisian vice. Tropic B is Tropic of Capricorn, its torrid twin. In the past, when both books had to be smuggled into the U.S., hosts of nonreaders thought of them only as interchangeable smut. Now anyone with a strongish stomach can find out for himself: smut they may be, but interchangeable they...
Bergson & Bosch. If Cancer was an old world debauch, Capricorn is a kind of New World Sinphony. an account of Author Miller's coming of age in New York City (1900-23). Incredibly garrulous and grotesque, the book is a disordered Horatio Alger story: escape from a poor Brooklyn boyhood, as it might have been written by Harpo Marx and Hieronymus Bosch working together. Wild philosophic maunderings sprinkled with a self-taught man's self-conscious display of highfalutin' acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind...
...Pioneer.- Thanks to its lubricious reputation. Cancer had wide sales-partly because of publicity-making struggles with local censors (notably in Los Angeles and Maryland). Capricorn may ring up the money too. especially since Grove Press this time will give no financial support to bookstores prosecuted for violating obscenity codes. In the long run, though, the only question likely to be raised about both books is "What is all the fuss about?" As a pornographer, Miller has been surpassed. As a critic of America, he is a gadfly with delusions of grandeur, an ineffectual rebel who can never make...
Henry Miller is still the world's most smuggled author-no Sarah Lawrence girl would think of returning to the temperate zones from her junior year abroad without a copy of his still-banned Tropic of Capricorn or Rosy Crucifixion hidden in the soiled laundry. But he is also the author most often skipped. That is to say, the almost unvarying gait for getting through one of Miller's books is: read four pages, skip four pages. Cynics will suggest that this is because the dirty passages in the Tropics or Sexus, Nexus and Plexus come at four...