Tropic of Cancer

"Mr. Henry Miller's autobiographical record of sex and hunger in the mouldy bohemias of Paris in the 1930s has been printed in this country for the first time....I must confess that after more than a quarter of a century, I find it as 'dated' and as anachronistic as Jurgen, or a novel by Ouida....One of the defects of censorship, I suppose, is that it tends to put criticism on the defensive. A book must be praised if it isn't to be damned. In the process, the work in question, instead of being soberly judged, achieves a spurious ambiguity....This is a hobo novel, a hobo life of the open boulevards, almost a piece of 'proletarian' fiction, in which sex has been subustituted for Marxism and 'naughty' words for revolutionary cliches....It is an old and obsolete book and, if it had been allowed its little day in the thirties, it would by now probably be as dead as most of the other shallow works of that sad era of doubt and confusion, of starvation and spiritual bankruptcy."Miller, Henry is the author of 'Tropic of Cancer', published 1994 under ISBN 9780802131782 and ISBN 0802131786.