Brassai

2011 · 28357 — <p>New York:: Arcade Publishing 2011. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Miller lived in Paris from 1930 to 1939 and during this period he went from a "middle-aged vagrant" to one of the most renowned and notorious authors who would jolt a generation with two seminal works--Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. While in Paris he met and became a close friend of Brassai who he quickly sensed was a kindred spirit and thus was born a life-long friendship that Brassai here documents from unpublished letters recollected conversations and references to Miller's writings. This is Brassai's intimate account of Miller's self-discovery and coming of age as a writer and thinker.</p> Arcade Publishing, hardcover