The intensity and sublimity of Miller's prose, graphed on a chart depicting beginning to end, would look like an inverted parabola. ( )

Henry in fine spirits, Black Spring is a collection of works seeded together and wrapped up in Miller's later years, the final novel in the Tropics series. Very close in some parts to Lawrence Durrell's The Black Book, which I am to think influenced Miller, as there are some aspects that are too glucose for Henry's regular style.

I just let Millers timeless rants flood me, not worrying too much if my mind wandered, I'd always return back to some part which managed to pull me in deep within the bowels of Henry's mirth at a downcast and sodden world, a world which for all its diseases is eternally Spring.

Some great moments including Henry's observations on French urinals and the art of peeing, the poet Jabberwhorl Cronstadt seeing everything and literally including the kitchen sink as poetry, erections whilst listening to Wagner, but as usual I find some of Henry's self reflecting rants as tiresome as my own. Henry Miller has a habit of really pushing the point of who he is under certain phases of mood and perspective, and he labors the point, but Henry gets so caught up in all this, he has to and wants to do it, I imagine less for the sake of the reader but more for the sake of himself.

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"Black Spring" is filled with writings about Miller's youth, both as a child growing up the son of a tailor and as a young man experiencing Paris. It is dedicated to Anais Nin and was published in the mid-30s. Like all of Miller's writing, it is exuberant, weird, over-the-top, and fascinating. The writing puts Kerouac to shame with its uninhibited, wild freedom that is quite satisfying to read. ( )

Awful, just awful. Miller's interesting use of language wasn't enough to rescue this piece of crap from the crap pile. No redeeming value whatsoever. ( )

Indeholder "Forord", "Fjortende distrikt", "Vaarens tredie eller fjerde dag", "En lørdag eftermiddag", "Englen er mit vandmærke", "Skræderbutikken", "Jabberwhorl Cronstadt", "Ind i det nattens liv", "Kinesisk promenade", "Burlesk", "Megalopolitansk maniker".

"Forord" handler om at den udkom i 1936 og altså ligger mellem Krebsens og Stenbukkens Vendekreds, der kom i 1934 og 1939. Og om Miller som en moderne digter. Forordet er skrevet af Jørgen Gustava Brandt.
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