![]() I do not call him a poet because he has never written a poem he even dislikes poetry, I think. I call Henry Miller the greatest living author because I think he is. The 1961 edition includes an introduction by Karl Shapiro written in 1960 and titled "The Greatest Living Author." The first three sentences are: These novels will give way, by and by, to diaries or autobiographies-captivating books, if only a man knew how to choose among what he calls his experiences that which is really his experience, and how to record truth truly. ![]() In the 1961 edition, opposite the novel's title page is a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson: :108 :116 Emerson quotation, preface, and introduction :109 In 1934, Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press published the book with financial backing from Nin, who had borrowed the money from Otto Rank. :105-107 Miller gave the following explanation of why the book's title was Tropic of Cancer: "It was because to me cancer symbolizes the disease of civilization, the endpoint of the wrong path, the necessity to change course radically, to start completely over from scratch.” :38Īnaïs Nin helped to edit the book. Miller wrote the book between 19 during his "nomadic life" in Paris. ![]() ![]() 10 References or allusions in other works.2 Emerson quotation, preface, and introduction. ![]()
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