File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9712, message 173


Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 22:27:09 -0500
From: Eric Yost <103423.421-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: PLC: Henry Miller and the Academy Who Doesn't Read Him


Regarding Henry Miller, Pat Sloane writes, "I don't think I
believe his stories. I believe the events happened, or could have happened.
But his way of telling about these events is both unique to him and
literary."

A few years before his death, Miller came across the original outline for
Tropic of Cancer at a friend's house.  Apparently an amazing document and
probably worthy of some critical perusal.

Miller's prose certainly doesn't  compare to Joyce's, but both had courage.
 I would again like to suggest that courage is, in and of itself,
subversive.


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