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Original Title:	The Colossus of Maroussi
ISBN:	0811201090 (ISBN13: 9780811201094)
Edition Language:	English

The Colossus of Maroussi

Henry Miller

Paperback | Pages: 244 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 3293 Users | 278 Reviews

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The Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, written in 1939 and first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. As an impoverished writer in need of rejuvenation, Miller travelled to Greece at the invitation of his friend, the writer Lawrence Durrell. The text is inspired by the events that occurred. The text is ostensibly a portrait of the Greek writer George Katsimbalis, although some critics have opined that is more of a self-portrait of Miller himself.[1] Miller considered it to be his greatest work.

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Title	:	The Colossus of Maroussi
Author	:	Henry Miller
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 244 pages
Published	:	January 17th 1975 by New Directions (first published 1941)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Cultural. Greece. Literature. Autobiography. Memoir

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I read every book Miller mentioned in this memoir. Following his excellent taste was a great starting point for me as a young reader. (I read it in the spring of 1974.)

Книгата напоително откровение; божествена (дано никога досега да не съм използвала тази дума).Писателят омайник.Хенри Милър идеалист, проповядващ против идеалите.50 звезди!Изкуших се да копирам наготово на английски от интернет, вместо да преписвам до безкрайност от безупречното българско издание.(Стефан Стефанов не е преводач. Той е едно с Хенри Милър.) I would set out in the morning and look for new coves and inlets in which to swim. There was never a soul about. I was like Robinson Crusoe

I'm so disappointed. What a hunk of junk. I don't know what this book is supposed to be, but a travel book, it is not. This is more like some self-centered, old-fashioned guy's philosophical blathering about a trip to Greece he took ages ago -- except it's not even interesting, nor is it funny, and it doesn't make a lick of sense. He goes on and on for paragraphs and paragraphs with no seeming point, and doesn't have anything interesting to say. The best thing I can say about this book is that

Miller's journey to Greece before the outbreak of the Second World War is a rough, poetic, cultural, philosophic hommage to Greece. It took me quite some time to grasp and comprehend what Miller wanted to say. His descriptions of Greece, of its people, of its art and of its past really compell the individual to ask himself/herself some important questions, like who we are, where are we going, what is our purpose in life. I have never experienced that in such a strong way like in Miller's

Miller's praise for the Land of Greece, her light and her people is genuinely touching. It makes one want to experience the greatness of the place, to be reborn like him. You also get to know more about him in this book. He's a madman and very opinionated but he's also an endearing romantic. His prose is straightforward and beautiful. His accounts were interesting, some really funny. For people who stereotyped him as misogynistic and egoistic, you know nothing about him.

Wonderful. I'd say a masterpiece. If I ever do go to Greece, I will have this book as my travel companion. Henry Miller gave himself completely over in this homage to Greece. His love for mankind is in every line. Some times it's a tough love...The book closes with the dark ominous threat of WWII coinciding with Miller's return to New York. The timing of the trip really adds to the experience because Miller writes it like it is an urgent testimony to our world before it blows.I urge anyone who

Absolutely, for me, this is still the most definitive book about Greece - written in 1939, published 2 years later as the II war raged on. Henry Miller was known for writing racy books that were Not in public or school libraries during my youth, so I didn't know his work at all. Before I discovered his book, I'd already fallen in love with the country and then moved to the small island of Poros that captured my heart. Some years later, when I was reading and 'on the way with Miller' to my chosen