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 genre. It was “Tropic of Cancer” and “Black Spring” that brought him scandalous fame; it was these novels that reached the general reader for decades, overcoming court injunctions and censorship slingshots. This is a story of love and hate, a story of creativity and madness; This is the story of a voluntary outcast from a fatherland mired in material worries, the story of an incorrigible romantic, always balancing between animal instinct and a powerful spiritual principle...