The most prominent representative of the experimental trend in American prose of the 20th century, a daring innovator whose best works were for a long time banned in his homeland, Henry Miller became famous not only for his confessional-autobiographical novels, but also for his memoirs and journalistic essays, in which he continues to talk about many of his friends and acquaintances, without whom it is impossible to imagine modern art and literature. We present to your attention one of the collections of his stories and essays, “Wisdom of the Heart,” translated into Russian for the first time. The book also includes the polemical story “The World of Sex,” presented in a new edition, in which Miller proves that the contradiction between his “scandalous” and “philosophical” works is only apparent...