Tropic of Cancer is the first novel in Henry Miller's trilogy, which also includes Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. Tropic of Cancer was first published in Paris in 1934. And it immediately aroused considerable interest (despite the insignificant circulation). “There are hardly two other books,” Georgy Adamovich later wrote, “about which there would now be more talk and controversy than about Henry Miller’s novels “Tropic of Cancer” and “Tropic of Capricorn.” Unfortunately, people who liked the novel, there were much more than those who dared to say this out loud, due to the constant accusations of the novel of corrupting the morals of readers. Although it’s hard to think of something further from pornography than Miller’s prose...