Henry Miller goes from literature to life and life to literature, these letters to Michael Fraenkel with Hamlet as an excuse, written between 1935 and 1938, constitute one of the most dazzling flashes of intelligence of the author of Sexus. As Michael Hargraves points out in the foreword "The beauty of the book lies not in Hamlet's examination (although I am sure that a Shakespearean scholar could greatly enjoy the book), but in the way the authors go down the branches to reveal themselves. These deviations are the ones that allow them to flow, to jump into debates about many things that are expensive to their hearts and about the world at large. and "contains some of Miller's best pages, some of his freer (and yet provocative) thoughts published and imbued with the sarcastic and wonderfully vulgar Miller style that I had already read."
Here Miller navigates the waters of insig...read more
