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Black Spring

Henry Miller

Paperback | Pages: 243 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 4552 Users | 199 Reviews

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Original Title:	Black Spring
ISBN:	0802131824 (ISBN13: 9780802131829)
Edition Language:	English

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Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit.

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Title	:	Black Spring
Author	:	Henry Miller
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 243 pages
Published	:	February 11th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1936)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature

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I've read that Miller is out of fashion at the moment. I can see why he might have been in fashion in just the same way as James Joyce and D H Lawrence were banned and so also fashionable because of their shock element. Now none of them are particularly shocking so why should we keep reading? Based purely on this book, which the blurb on the back calls "his most distinguished book from a stylistic point of view," I can see that there is a lot more to Miller than simple shock tactics. His

Dense and difficult to decipher. The writing style reveals the talent of the writer, his craftsmanship of words. But this style is also making it difficult to follow an idea from start to end.Overall, "Black Spring" emanates a lot of hate and disdain for the world the author is forced to live in, in which he doesn't fit.

Warning: This review is long, has excessive amount of quotes, and does not reach much of a conclusion. If you have a short attention span, this may not be for you. However, if you appreciate fine writing, I encourage you to read on. For me, Henry Miller is the finest writer America has produced over the past century. When his name comes up, most readers associate Miller with sex, scandals, pornography. This is mostly due to the press attention given to his two books, The Tropic of Cancer, and

This book changed my life. No hyperbole. I never looked at the world the same way after reading this. It was also present at the moment of serendipity when I finally "got" modernism. Probably the best birthday gift I've ever received. Thanks Ken.

In Black Spring Henry Miller demonstrates his abilities as a teller of anecdotes and poet of the street life:To be born in the street means to wander all your life, to be free. It means accident and incident, drama, movement. It means above all dream. A harmony of irrelevant facts which gives to your wandering a metaphysical certitude. In the street you learn what human beings really are; otherwise, or afterwards, you invent them.And throughout the entire book he keeps walking the streets:

Can we just see, by show of hands, how many people understood what this book is about? Nobody has their hands up? OK. We have no idea what this book is about. Clearing that up makes reading it easier.Outside of his more auto-biographical works, Miller is just one lean metaphor-making machine. From page one, it can discourage even the bravest of readers, by giving you no time at all to adjust to the rhythm or the cadence of his sentences. In "Black Spring", you will find a very dark Miller,

35th book of 2020.I read recently that you shouldn't start reading Miller by reading Black Spring and here I am starting Miller with Black Spring . I won't lie, I'm not 100% sure what the hell happened through a lot of this book. I can certainly see Miller's influence on Kerouac - it is very Kerouac, a more complicated, a more rambling, a far ruder Kerouac. I can see why Miller's work was banned, to think he was writing around the time of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and using, well, the worst