The Book of Friends trilogy is the last of the major works of Henry Miller, who already in the seventies risked confirming his status not as a “genius and a classic,” but as a “brilliant hooligan from literature.” The result was a bizarre "Chronicle of a Lost Time" - from the writer's Brooklyn childhood to his famous "New York period" - and a deafening scandal in the press, shocked by Miller's revelations and at the same time admired by his literary mastery...