Le livre Préface de Yannick Haenel « J´allais, les yeux bandés, chancelant, hésitant ; j´étais orgueilleux, arrogant, content de mener la vie fausse et restreinte du citadin. La lumière de la Grèce m´a ouvert les yeux ; elle a pénétré mes pores et dilaté tout mon être. » En 1939, alors que l'Europe ...
Sulfureux, désespéré, la redécouverte d'un roman de jeunesse largement autobiographique par l'auteur de Tropique du Cancer, publié pour la première fois par Belfond en 1991. Dans le Greenwich Village des années 1920, la cohabitation tourmentée d'un écrivain, de sa femme et de la maîtresse de celle-c...
Devenus aujourd'hui des classiques de la littérature érotique, les Tropique du Capricorne et Tropique du Cancer n'ont rien perdu de leur force explosive. C'est à Paris qu'Henry Miller écrit ces deux romans. Marginal, pique-assiette, désabusé, alcoolique, fauché aux goûts de luxe mais surtout fou de ...
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In The World of Sex, Henry Miller, one of the most scandalous writers of the 20th century explains his literary project Henry Miller's bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the literature of his day. In this uncompromising literary manifesto he argues that sex is at the heart of his ...
A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel, Tropic of Cancer A story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939. A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the story of Henry ...
Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century Tropic of Cancer redefined the novel. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it features a starving American writer who lives a bohemian...
'Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy'Looking back to Henry Miller's bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an obscure, penniless writer, Quiet Days in Clichy is a love letter to a city. As he describes nocturnal wa...
'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light'Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off to explore the Grecian countryside with his friend Lawrence Durrell in 1939. In...
'New York is an aquarium ... where there are nothing but hellbenders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks'In 1935 Henry Miller set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. Aller Retour New York, his exuberant, humorous missive to his friend Alfred Pe...
The best of Eastern and Western medicine in an integrative healing system for the mind, body, and spirit. Now, for the first time, a Western physician and a doctor of Oriental medicine combine the unparalleled technological advances of the West with the unmatched wisdom and healing touch Chinese he...
Originally published in 1865, Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod is a wonderfully written, surprisingly funny account of nineteenth-century life on the Cape well before it became a major tourist attraction. To this day, many people consider it the best book ever written about Cape Cod. This new illustra...
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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine. ...