![]() The novel was featured in a 1991 episode of Seinfeld, The Library. Brussel was eventually sent to jail for ten years for the edition, a copy of which is in the Library of Congress under call number PS3525.I5454 T7 1940. ![]() Ohio (which was decided the same day) and overruled state court findings of obscenity.Ī copyright infringing "Medusa" edition of the novel was published in New York City in 1940 by Jacob Brussel its title page claimed its place of publication to be Mexico. The novel included a preface credited to Anaïs Nin (although allegedly penned by Miller himself). There are many passages explicitly describing the narrator's sexual encounters, but the book does not solely focus on this subject. ![]() Some chapters follow a strict narrative and refer to Miller's actual friends, colleagues, and workplaces others are written as stream-of-consciousness reflections. ![]() It is written in the first person, as are many of Miller's other novels, and often fluctuates between past and present tense. The novel is set in 1930s France, primarily Paris. While famous for its frank and often graphic depiction of sex, the book is also widely regarded as an important masterpiece of 20th century literature. ![]() Its publication in 1961 in the United States by Grove Press led to an obscenity trial that was one of several that tested American laws on pornography in the 1960s. Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris. ![]()
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