Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred

The delights of his prose are many, not the least of which is Miller's comic irony, which asThe London Timesnoted, can be "as stringent and urgent as Swift's." Frederick Turner has organized the whole to highlight the autobiographical chronology of Miller's life, and along the way places the author [...]
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The delights of his prose are many, not the least of which is Miller's comic irony, which asThe London Timesnoted, can be "as stringent and urgent as Swift's." Frederick Turner has organized the whole to highlight the autobiographical chronology of Miller's life, and along the way places the author squarely where he belongs in the great tradition of American radical individualism, as a child of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Miller, who joyously declared "I am interested like God only in the individual," would have been pleased. The keynotes here are self-liberation and the pleasures of Miller's "knotty, cross-grained" genius, as Turner describes it "defying classification, ultimately unamenable to any vision, any program not his] own." Or, as Henry Miller himself put it: "I am the hero and the book is myself."