[About the Book]
In the 1930s, amid poverty and profound loneliness, writer Henry Miller found the courage to “write reality as it was.”
This book is an intellectual documentary that traces how Miller came to write his legendary twentieth-century Anglo-American literary work, Tropic of Cancer, and how its explosive impact spread across the world-and eventually to Japan.

Through the enduring themes of censorship, literature and obscenity, and freedom, the book revives the meaning of Miller’s life as one in which he truly “lived his life as a work of art.”

A definitive document on the birth of Tropic of Cancer, recommended for students of twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, scholars of Henry Miller, and fans of modernist literature.

[About the Author]
Yasunori Honda (born 1938, Kumamoto City). M.A., Waseda University Graduate School. Professor Emeritus, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University. Specialization: twentieth-century British and American fiction. Major books: D. H. Lawrence and Henry Miller (Hokuseidō, 1994); co-editor, Henrī Mirā o Yomu (Reading Henry Miller; Suiseisha, 2008). Major translations: Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (2004); Twinka Thiebaud, Recalling Henry Miller (co-translation, 2005) - both from Suiseisha.