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After the war Moricand scouted out Miller's place of rest in California. Miller was living precariously in a cabin above the cliffs at Big Sur with a young wife (his third), a small daughter, a plenitude of unpaid bills and an uncertain future...
This book is an advance segment of the memoirs of the occasionally printable author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, and it makes a readable, sometimes hilarious appetizer to a more thorough work scheduled to come out early next year under the title Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch...
...godlets. For others it has interest as the life record of a literary anarchist of boundless charm and talent but limited good sense, the loosest member of the Lost Generation, who, now 64. has lived these twelve years past as a sage emeritus in an arty enclave at Big Sur, Calif...
...this manner, Perles, a Vienna-born writer, makes his bid to be an official court jester and chronologer to the King of Bohemia; he spent five months in his prize panjandrum's presence at Big Sur to put finishing touches to the only autobiography of Henry Miller not written by Henry Miller...
...living by his wits." At the Dome and Coupole, Montparnasse haunts of the U.S. expatriate, he talked about death and Dostoevsky and was already veering toward the sort of grandiloquent occultism that today qualifies Miller for a career as a Los Angeles swami, should he tire of Big Sur. Perles lovingly records every drink...