Henry Miller is the most prominent representative of the experimental trend in American prose of the 20th century, a daring innovator, whose best works were banned for a long time in his homeland, a master of the confessional-autobiographical novel. The story “The Devil in Paradise” (presented in a new edition) is a kind of parable about failed salvation, about the fact that every good deed is certainly punished, about the unsuccessful dialogue of two fatalisms: old European astrology and the then newfangled Eastern Zen. The novel “Under the Roofs of Paris” (published in a new translation) is perhaps the most scandalous work of the modern classic; Miller wrote this book, which Norman Mailer called “the best erotic novel of our time,” in the critical year of 1941, commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller, receiving a dollar per page, and the initial print run was five typewritten copies.