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"Fearless, iconic poet, novelist, and feminist Erica Jong offers a fascinating in-depth appreciation of the controversial life and work of American literary giant Henry MillerHenry Miller (Tropic of Cancer) and Erica Jong (Fear of Flying) are true literary soul mates. Both authors have been, in equal measure, lauded for their creative genius and maligned for their frank treatment of human sexuality. So who better than Erica Jong to offer an expert appraisal and appreciation of Henry Miller, the man and his art?At once a critical study, a biography, a memoir of a remarkable friendship, and a cel."@en
"The book begins with a question: Why Henry Miller? "Miller remains among the most misunderstood of writers - seen either as a pornographer or a guru, a sexual enslaver or a sexual liberator, a prophet or a pervert. All the questions his life and oeuvre raise about the role of the writer in society, the impact of books on sexual politics, the impact of sexual politics on books, the threat of censorship to free speech and written expression are, unfortunately, as fresh today as they ever were." Part biography, part memoir, part critical study, part exploration of sexual politics in our time, The Devil at Large is an event: a book that promises to rescue Miller from the facile charges of misogyny, anti-Semitism, and titillation that have been lobbed at him over the years, and brilliantly captures the exuberance, audacity, and energy that defined his life and art. More than that, it is a reunion between a young writer and her mentor. In 1974, while Fear of Flying was still a relatively obscure first novel, Erica Jong received an enthusiastic fan letter from Henry Miller, then an old man of eighty-three. Miller credited himself with "discovering" Jong, and his faithful correspondence guided her through a year of enormous change. The two writers - chastised and celebrated for their lusty prose, accused of conflating autobiography with fiction in their respective generations - found they were kindred spirits, and began a friendship that would last until Miller's death in 1980. "Make it all up!" was Miller's appeal to Jong to become his biographer. But in reexamining Miller, Jong has not had to fictionalize. She has imparted a deeper understanding of a life whose dramatic particulars have long since been mythologized, dramatized, and cannibalized by those in search of a lusty life story. Jong puts the works, the letters, the loves through a prism that clarifies the creative impulse, making this slim book a quintessential chronicle of a writer's life and a mirror of our own times. "Always the flesh and the vision together," Anais Nin said of Miller. The Devil at Large asks its readers to look anew at these elements and come to a new appreciation of a twentieth-century visionary and prophet."

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"Biografieën (vorm)"
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"Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
"Biography"
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"Der Teufel in Person : Henry Miller und ich"
"Henry Miller ou le diable en liberte : Erica Jong"@en
"The devil at large"
"The devil at large"@en
"The devil at large : Erica Jong on Henry Miller"
"The devil at large : Erica Jong on Henry Miller"@en
"Diavolo fra noi"
"Il diavolo fra noi : Erica Jong su Henry Miller"
"Devil at large"@en
"The devil at large Erica Jong on Henry Miller"@en
"Il diavolo fra noi"@it
"Il diavolo fra noi"
"The Devil at Large Erica Jong on Henry Miller"@en
"Diabeł na wolności : Erica Jong o Henrym Millerze"@pl
"Diabeł na wolności : Erica Jong o Henrym Millerze"
"Henry Miller ou Le diable en liberté"
"The Devil at large"
"The devil at large : on Henry Miller"
"Henry Miller ou le diable en liberté"
"Démon zblízka : Biogr. H. Millera"
"Diabeł na wolności"

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