Word: tropicalism
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Rhode Island's scholarly, libertarian Senator Theodore Francis Green last week returned to Washington with a warm appreciation of tropic hospitality. Along with New York's Republican Representative Hamilton Fish and Democratic Representative Matthew Merritt, Democrat Green was the guest last fortnight of the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. In Ciudad Trujillo (the General's new name for the venerable city of Santo Domingo), the U. S. delegation looked upon 1) a box (which remained unopened) containing a tiny heap of bone & dust billed as the true "last parts" of Christopher Columbus...
Announcement of the U. S. publication of Tropic of Cancer was surprising literary news not only because of its underground reputation. It revealed the recent revival of interest in the neglected field of experimental writing-that cloudy area of modern letters with its little magazines, obscure poems, defiant manifestoes, communications from Ezra Pound. In Manhattan a plump, handsome periodical, Twice a Year, took up where The Dial left off a decade ago. In Paris appeared The Black Book, a novel by Lawrence Durrell, who gave promise of outdoing Henry Miller in the form that admirers call the dithyrambic novel...
...Tropic of Cancer. How New Directions will get around the obstacles that have previously prevented publication of Tropic of Cancer in the U. S. is still unclear. This strange book is the work of a 47-year-old expatriate who was born in New York, worked as a tailor, personnel manager, ranchman in California, newspaperman, six-day bicycle racer, concert pianist and who settled in Paris "to study vice." Short, bald, shrewd and bespectacled, with something of the air of a country editor, Henry Miller says he wants to go off the gold standard of literature, to write the things...
...Tropic of Cancer he deals primarily with matters which, while not exactly left out of modern books, are usually slurred over, and in his pages four-letter words are as common as the things they stand for. Narrator of the story is a penniless, sex-obsessed writer living in Paris, who encounters an extraordinary crew of neurotics, prostitutes, perverts, poets and painters, with many of whom he has sexual relations, meanwhile borrowing money, cadging drinks and exploding into hysterical laughter at the misfortunes of his friends. Miller's prose, with its queer combination of unrestrained rhetoric and dry Yankee...
...Black Book. With an underground reputation like Miller's, Lawrence Durrell writes less of the subject that has kept Tropic of Cancer out of the U. S. But he puts in enough words to prevent The Black Book from being published anywhere except in Paris. Less shocking than Tropic of Cancer, The Black Book follows a similar pattern, with realistic scenes giving way to tumultuous passages of invective and bitter rhapsody...