[Straight Sex] Henry Miller & the Decadent

[dreamboat]

Hello this is Dreamboat.

I hope my english is not too "thick", its really not my native tongue. so please bare with me.
what has fascinated me and troubled me alike is Henry Millers Novel Tropic of Cancer and its sequel Tropic of Capricorn.
A grotesques show of decadence but not without meaning. Henry Miller in his seminal work introduces us to the vulgar.
Miller is convinced that his life is meaningless so in a last attempt to "go at it" with the world he goes full blazing swinging with both arms loaded with every dirty word he could muster. He tries very hard to sound degrading but in his immense show of discontent he also shows his inner most feelings. and that above all renders his sordid tale one that is utterly remarkable. and unmatched until this day. but what is the story of Tropic of Cancer?

well its difficult to say, but this is one: a protagonist goes through france, he is an artist. there is no plot, except his life and his loves (which are many). he does not know if he loves them, if he loved them, all that he knows it that he went "through" them, it each one of them changed him for ever. in one scene he recounts: I am fucking you, Tania, so that you'll stay fucked. what he wants if for her to remain the same, but he does not know how, so uses the words he only knows. and he hopes that it echoes with sincerity.

If anyone has read it I would love to hear your views...