The Obelisk Trilogy

Unforgettable novels of self-confession and subversive self-revelation. Mad, free-associating journeys from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inh [...]
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Unforgettable novels of self-confession and subversive self-revelation. Mad, free-associating journeys from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit.

Henry Miller's collaboration with The Obelisk press in The 1930s produced three phenomenal works still much-loved to this day. The groundbreaking Tropic of Cancer published by Jack Kahane in 1934 after Anais Nin helped cover costs, its followup Tropic of Capricorn, finally printed in 1939, and Black Spring, a collection of vignettes and tales from 1936. These three works, later republished by The Olympia Press in Paris announced The arrival of a bold, pugilistic, voice on The literary scene, one whose artistic roar echos to this day