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Original Title:	Henry Miller: grandeur nature
ISBN:	1559703474 (ISBN13: 9781559703475)
Edition Language:	English

Henry Miller: The Paris Years

Brassaï

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 340 Users | 20 Reviews

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Title	:	Henry Miller: The Paris Years
Author	:	Brassaï
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2007 by Arcade Publishing (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction

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Miller didn't just inhabit Paris, he devoured it. Not the Paris of the guidebooks, but the City of Light's lurid backways and backwaters, the dens of vice where he could slough off the pale cast of American puritanism and embrace the hedonistic facts of life. The Parisian life of Miller was a turbulent quest for new sensations and avenues, a roisterous, slumming exploration of the soul. This world Miller shared with Brassai, one of the greatest photographers of our century. Miller and Brassai's friendship was a recognition of kindred spirits, born of mutual admiration for each other's tireless, restless fascination with Paris and its inhabitants. In Miller, Brassai found his most compelling subject. Using unpublished letters, recollected conversations, and references to Miller's work—and featuring sixteen unforgettable examples of Brassai's photography—"Henry Miller: The Paris Years" is an intimate account of a writer's self-discovery, seen through the unblinking eye of a master photographer. Brassai delves into Miller's relationships with Anais Nin and Lawrence Durrell, as well as his hopelessly tangled though wildly inspiring marriage to June. Brassai remembers Miller's favorite cafes and haunts, revives Miller's idols and anathemas, and evokes their shared passion for the street life of a Montparnasse and Montmartre captured, even during those depression years, in a dazzling moment of illumination.

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Vice lurked over everything like an erotic gargoyle. Covering the decade of the 1930s, especially its first half, Brassai does an excellent job of bringing the Paris of those years to life. The volume includes 16 photos, but given Brassai's acclaim as a photographer, more would have been even better. Instead, he supplies many, many more word pictures, which, possibly owing to translator Timothy Bent, effectively and often poetically evoke the scene. A good example: He loved "as he would his

A charming account of Brassaï's friendship with Miller during the 1930s. Miller gave a portrait of Brassaï in "The Eye of Paris," an essay collected in Miller's The Wisdom of the Heart.

Great portrait of the writer by the legendary Parisian photographer Brassai--one artist appreciating another.

Intimate revelations about Henry and Paris, Henry and June, Henry and Anais etc. Really worthwhile if you love Miller.

Let me just add a few comments to what I've already written below. I found this book a lot more interesting than I had expected. My infatuation with Miller in my youth had not stood up to a recent rereading of Cancer and Capricorn -- and I have begun to understand why so many of my GR friends rate his books rather poorly. I'm not even sure why I chose to read this book, in fact, given where I'm at.On the other hand, as I read Brassaï's intelligent account (he has a wonderful eye, as you'd

This could be very boring but is so well written that it isn't at all. The end is amazing. No wonder it was banned when released. Not sure it fits with rest of book either hence 4 star. Otherwise excellent