A Henry Miller Moment [and, sort of, blogging]

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Oct 5 21:08:14 PDT 2002


Chris Doss wrote:
>
> >
> >It's not like I think he shouldn't be quoted or anything, no more or
> >less than FScottF or anything, but, really, I never get why any one
> >thinks him important.
> >
> >Like Bret Easton Ellis, or Hemingway; I just don't get it.
> >
> >Catherine
> >
> >
>
> I agree. Miller is repulsive. Tropic of Cancer is pornographic travel
> fiction. The sex in Justine is more genuine than in that travesty.
>

Actually, I'm not very familiar with Miller's work. Pound recommended his first book to Shakespeare Press in Paris with the comment, "It's a dirty book worth publishing." Kate Millet gives him a pretty good going-over in her _Sexual Politics_.

Carrol



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