After the fame that "Tropic of Cancer" (1934) brought him, Henry Miller confirmed the value of his literary proposal with this novel, which definitively placed him among the strongest and most profound voices of the 20th century.
The sexual, work and family experiences of a Western Union employee serve as a common thread to an autobiographical fiction from which Miller's critical look at the world and the men around him, his philosophical disquisitions and his powerful song to individuality. Miller took a truly important step in the evolution of literature with his personal way of approaching narrative art.
