Currently reading
Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tristes Tropiques
Richard III
The Dwarf
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Labyrinths
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Gravity's Rainbow
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
I've downgraded my rating to 4-stars -- that is a personal victory for me - the triumph of understanding over nostalgia... (not always one of my strengths....). At any rate, I see now that Miller in this book fashioned himself (Anais Nin always said he wasn't nearly as much of a cad as he tried to make out) -- as a Futurist hero (-- even though he referred to himself in Nietzschean terms as "the last man"). The problem is..., that by the 1930's, Futurism was already old hat and had been superseded. So a little bit of literary arrested development here, Henry..., eh?
In the 1930's, in other words, with fascism already on the rise -- Miller was still going on about D'Annunzio, Knut Hamsun, Élie Fauer, and Blaise Cendrars...
Original review:
"Still a great book... uneven perhaps in parts - but full of soul"