Or when it paints a portrait of his father, jovial and bon vivant, of a healthy anticlericalism.
But he knows how to be tender, with a sad tenderness reminiscent of the forever bygone days of mischievous, naive and generous youth. ), calculating and, above all, odiously cynical (or fiercely honest it depends. Miller reveals himself, on the other hand, as a womanizer, sometimes violent with women, always broke but just as lavish, regularly "tapper" (one would say a scratcher nowadays. He thus becomes the saddened and revolted witness of the metamorphosis of this once so familiar setting. The Mephistopheles infection of tanner's skin with the irresistible scent of fresh bread and confectionery pastries. Miller retraces the life of his Brooklyn neighbourhood as he first knew it as a child: his memories of his grandfather's little tailor shop and the smells of the businesses in his community. In Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller appears in a hallucinated monologue of a type on the fringes, of an outsider, a magnificent loser, rebellious, flayed alive, of a saturnal personality (O Verlaine!).
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