Henry Miller - A Life

Informationen zum Autor Robert Ferguson was born in Blackpool in 1948. After completing Norwegian studies at University College in London, he took up a state scholarship in Norway in1983, and has since then lived in Oslo. Ferguson is an award-winning dramatist and has translated and adapted several of Ibsen's plays for the BBC. Apart from Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography he is also the author of two other highly acclaimed biographies, Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun and Henry Miller: A Life. Klappentext Born in Brooklyn in 1891! son of a tailor of German extraction! Henry Miller would embrace a freewheeling existence that carried him through umpteen jobs and sexual encounters! providing rich source material for the novels he would write. This title presents his portrait. Zusammenfassung Bohemian, egoist and prophet of sensualism, Henry Miller remains to many writers and readers a literary lion. Born in Brooklyn in 1891, son of a tailor of German extraction, Miller would embrace a freewheeling existence that carried him through umpteen jobs and sexual encounters, providing rich source material for the novels he would write. Greenwich Village and Paris in the 1920s offered rich pickings, as did Miller's ten-year affair with Anais Nin. But he was 69 before Tropic of Cancer was legally published in the US and made him famous, almost 30 years from its composition and long after his peers had devoured it in contraband French editions. Robert Ferguson reveals Miller as a amalgam of vulnerability and insouciance, who endured thirty years of official opprobrium but won the respect of Orwell, T.S. Eliot and Lawrence Durrell, and readers by the thousand. 'This impressive biography [is] good, dirty fun.' Observer 'Engaging and perceptive.' Economist 'Lively and entertaining.' J.G. Ballard

Product details

• Authors: Robert Ferguson, Ferguson Robert
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2012
• EAN: 9780571294831
• ISBN: 978-0-571-29483-1
• No. of pages: 430
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, American English, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers, Bohemia; Erotica; Faber Finds; Notoriety; Sex; Writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form