Word: tropic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That they determine in all this semantical exchange has more than academic interest, since Massachusetts Attorney General Edward J. McCormack is filing suit to have the book banned as obscene. Tropic is now under a temporary ban throughout the state...
Moore described Tropic as the "adventures of an American in Paris," and compared Miller's anarchic individualism with that of Whitman, Emerson, or Thoreau. "Its seamier passages reflect the life of real people," he told Judge Goldberg: "If this book is obscene, then life is obscene...
Cross-examining Moore, Sontag stuck doggedly to the contents of the book. Moore was ready to admit that characters in tropic talk about nymphomania, masturbtaion, sexual relations with ani- mals, Lesbianism, homosexuality, and ridicule of conventional religion, but insisted that the novel is pure in intent and even religions in its sense of the sacredness of life...
...work has literary value, Schorer replied with an anecdote: not very long ago he was asked to be one member of a committee to award to European prize of $10,000 for contemporary writing. His thought was that Miller should get the prize, despite the fact that Tropic's author has been writing for several decades, for the reason that "Miller has never been adequately recognized." But the European critics on the committee rejected his suggestion, because to them "Miller has been a great figure for years," and required no further acclaim...
Schorer praised Tropic of Cancer for its energy, and its theme: "the value of life exists in the act of living." The book is a work of art written in the spirit of ant art, he said; the autobiographical "I" divests himself of all, in order to live, just as Miller the writer destroys literary convention in order to write...