Related Links on Tropic of Capricorn
Bureau of Public Secrets: The Reality of Henry Miller - An enlightening essay on Henry Miller, the man and his works, by Kenneth Roxroth. Also includes links to other Roxroth essays on Miller.
Henry Miller Remembered - A short but fascinating interview with Elmer Gertz, the lawyer who defended the publication of Tropic of Cancer in Illinois.
Henry Miller - Life Stories, Books, and Links - A useful, all-purpose site with biographical information, a bibliography, and links.
Tropic of Capricorn Essays and Related Content
- Tropic of Capricorn: Major Themes
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- Henry Miller: Biography
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- About Tropic of Capricorn
- Character List
- Glossary of Terms
- Major Themes
- Summary and Analysis of Section I: From beginning to “I walked out by the same door that I had walked in – without as much as a by-your-leave, sir!”
- Summary and Analysis of Section II: “Things take place instantaneously” to “The frozen glass of the window cutting like a jackknife, clean and no remainder.”
- Summary and Analysis of Section III: “Life drifting by the show window” to “It gave me the feeling of the stupidity of the blood tie and of the love which is not spiritually imbued.”
- Summary and Analysis of Section IV: “I look back rapidly and I see myself again in California” to “I was not even a personal hard on.”
- Summary and Analysis of Section V: “It was about this time, adopting the pseudonym Samson Lackawanna, that I began my depradations” to “This is the only world you can inhabit, this tomb of the snake where darkness reigns.”
- Summary and Analysis of Section VI: “And suddenly for no reason at all, when I think of her returning to her nest, I remember Sunday mornings in the little old house near the cemetery” to “It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that the
- Summary and Analysis of Section VII: From “The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters” to end.
- Tropic of Capricorn as Autobiography
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