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will give way, by and by, to diaries or autobiographies—captivating books, if only a man knew how to choose among what he calls his experiences that which is really his experience, and how to record truth truly.  \n—Ralph Waldo Emerson  \nCopyright © 1961 by Grove Press, Inc.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, or the facilitation thereof, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in areview. Any members of educational institutions wishing to photocopy part or all ofthe work for classroom use, or publishers who would like to obtain permission to include the work in an anthology, should send their inquiries to Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.  \nMaterial quoted in the Introduction from other works by Henry Miller is reprinted by the kind permission of New Directions: Wisdom of the Heart, copyright © 1941 by New Directions; The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, copyright © 1948 by Henry Miller; The Time ofthe Assassins, copyright © 1946, 1949, 1956 by New Directions.  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada Printed in the United States of America  \nThe Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Miller, Henry, 1891-1980  \nTropic of Cancer. New York, Grove Press [1961]  \n318 p.  \nI. Title.  \nPS3525 .I5454T7 1961 818.52 61-15597  \nISBN-10: 0-8021-3178-6  \nISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3178-2  \nGrove Press  \nan imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.  \n841 Broadway  \nNew York, NY 10003  \nDistributed by Publishers Group West  \n[www.groveatlantic.com](www.groveatlantic.com)[ ](www.groveatlantic.com)09 10 40 39 38  \nThe Greatest Living Author*  \nI call Henry Miller the greatest living author because I think he is. I do not call him a poet because he has never written a poem; he even dislikes poetry, I think. But everything he has written is a poem in the best as well as in the broadest sense of the word. Secondly, I do not call him a writer, but an author. The writer is the fly in the ointment of modern letters; Miller has waged ceaseless war against writers. If one had to type him one might call him a Wisdom writer, Wisdom literature being a type of literature which lies between literature and scripture; it is poetry only because it rises above literature and because it sometimes ends up in bibles. I wrote to the British poet and novelist Lawrence Durrell last year and said: Let’s put together a bible of Miller ’s work. (I thought I was being original in calling it a bible.) Let’s assemble a bible from his work, I said, and put one in every hotel room in America, after removing the Gideon Bibles and placing them in the laundry chutes. Durrell, however, had been working on this “bible”for years; I was a Johnny-come-lately. In fact, a group of writers all over the world have been working on it, and one version has now come out.  \nThere was a commonplace reason why this volume was very much needed. The author ’s books have been almost impossible to obtain; the ones that were not banned were stolen from libraries everywhere. Even a copy of one of the nonbanned books was recently stolen from the mails en route tome. Whoever got it had better be a book lover, because it was a bibliography.  \nI will introduce Miller with a quotation from the Tropic ofCancer: “I sometimes ask myself how it happens that I attract nothing but crackbrained individuals, neurasthenics, neurotics, psychopaths—and Jews especially. There must be something in a healthy Gentile that excites the Jewish mind, like when he sees sour black bread.” The “healthy Gentile” is a good sobriquet for Miller, who usually refers to himself as the Happy Rock, Caliban,“just a Brooklyn boy,”“Someone who has gone off the gold standard of Literature” or—the name I like best—the ","cbCairrDGWscJg7t","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairrDGWscJg7t","pdf",805001,258,"English","# Introduction by Karl Shapiro\n## The Greatest Living Author\n## Miller as Poet, Author, and “Patagonian”\n## How to Talk About Miller\n## Facts and How to Read His Work","[{\"question\":\"Who wrote the Introduction and Preface for Tropic of Cancer?\",\"answer\":\"Karl Shapiro provides the Introduction, and Anaïs Nin writes the Preface.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the Introduction argue that Henry Miller should not be called a poet or a writer?\",\"answer\":\"It claims Miller has never written a poem in the narrow sense and resists the label of “writer,” arguing instead that his work functions as poetry in a broader, elevated sense.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the Introduction say about the availability and reception of Miller’s books?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that his books were often hard to obtain, with many banned and even stolen from libraries and the mails.\"}]","Tropic of Cancer - Introduction and Preface | PDF",397]