In some ways, reading the Tropic books is like watching someone obsessively paint his self-portrait over and over, all with the title, Self-Portrait of the Artist.Īccording to Miller, “Life becomes a spectacle and, if you happen to be an artist, you record the passing show.
In the Tropic books, Miller makes his consciousness of himself as an artist the subject of his art.
Scott Fitzgerald, seem fascinated by their significance as artists and by the future importance of their art. Other contemporary American writers, for example, F. Like Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn is part autobiography, part memoir, part polemic, part fiction, part fantasy, and part poetry, written in near stream of consciousness as Miller experiences one epiphany after another.Īs with the prior book, Miller’s ramblings are the source and the result of his efforts to define himself as an artist.
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller. Recommended.
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