![]() ![]() ![]() I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. But laugh, Anaïs, I love to hear you laugh. I love women, or life, too much - which it is, I don't know. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal - it's not in me. Written in the tradition of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, it relates Miller’s picaresque life as an impoverished expatriate in France in the early 1930s. I can't fool you - and yet I would like to. Tropic of Cancer, autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, published in France in 1934 and, because of censorship, not published in the United States until 1961. I am saying to myself "here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere." I remember your saying - "you could fool me, I wouldn't know it." When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. You come and the time slips away in a dream. “Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. ![]()
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