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The inimitable Henry Miller speaks candidly about himself, his fiction, and his life in this collection of interviews from 1956- 1977. He and his interviewers discuss the novel that stirred the obscenity charges as well as his life as an expatriate, his loves and lovers, his goals, beliefs and insight into art and American culture. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

SYNOPSIS

From Henry Miller: Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

Obsenity has its natural place in literature, as it does in life, and it will never be obliterated. I feel I have restored sex to its rightful role, rescued the life force from literary oblivion.

I've always felt that I'm in the country and not of it. I fell little connection with the things around me here. I'm not interested in political or social movements. I love my own restricted life, with my friends. What I read about the American way of life, about what goes on here, fills me with horror and dismay. It's become even more of an air-conditioned nightmare than it was when I wrote the books. I'm being corroborated, I feel, by events.

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