The World of Sex
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Henry Miller's bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the literature of his day. In this uncompromising literary manifesto he argues that sex is at the heart of his writing because it is at the heart of life - a vital force as essential as bread, money, work or play. Drawing on his own experiences and on the writing of his famously banned novels in Paris, he shows sex as a mysterious realm that must be explored if we are to be truly free.
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The misogynistic bullshit of it all...astonishing. I think I figured that a man deemed fuckable by Anaïs Nin would have some flourish about him, but this was a terrible read. I can wholly recognise that by the standard of 1940 to publicly talk about sex, with the intent to promote a more liberated enjoyment of it, is a daring thing. But why declare this to be a classic and not just a historical document? It's beyond me. Miller seems to look at sex embedded in a rather misanthropic worldview, paired with heaps of sexism, classism and the n-word. And I get why in 1940 one would be fed up with the state of things, but to qualify as an "uncompromising literary manifesto" (borrowed from the Penguin Modern Classics 2015 edition) I sure expected the demand of the manifesto to have more depth and care (dare I say, fun?) for its subject. But no, in the exclusively male PoV analysis of heterosexual relationships only, women are described in vile language and dependency to men and I wouldn't wish this read on anybody.
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Henry Miller's bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the literature of his day. In this uncompromising literary manifesto he argues that sex is at the heart of his writing because it is at the heart of life - a vital force as essential as bread, money, work or play. Drawing on his own experiences and on the writing of his famously banned novels in Paris, he shows sex as a mysterious realm that must be explored if we are to be truly free.
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The misogynistic bullshit of it all...astonishing. I think I figured that a man deemed fuckable by Anaïs Nin would have some flourish about him, but this was a terrible read. I can wholly recognise that by the standard of 1940 to publicly talk about sex, with the intent to promote a more liberated enjoyment of it, is a daring thing. But why declare this to be a classic and not just a historical document? It's beyond me. Miller seems to look at sex embedded in a rather misanthropic worldview, paired with heaps of sexism, classism and the n-word. And I get why in 1940 one would be fed up with the state of things, but to qualify as an "uncompromising literary manifesto" (borrowed from the Penguin Modern Classics 2015 edition) I sure expected the demand of the manifesto to have more depth and care (dare I say, fun?) for its subject. But no, in the exclusively male PoV analysis of heterosexual relationships only, women are described in vile language and dependency to men and I wouldn't wish this read on anybody.