Aller Retour New York
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Aller Retour New York is a novel by American writer Henry Miller, published in 1935 by Obelisk Press in Paris, France.
Published after his breakthrough book
Literary critic Shaun O'Connell describes the book as "a litany of [Miller's] disenchantment with America," and Miller's view of New York as "the symbolic center of American corruption." Miller paints an unpleasant picture of a New York that, in Miller's eyes, is distinctly inferior to Paris.
The book went out of print after 1945, but was reprinted by
References
- ^ a b Shaun O'Connell, Remarkable, Unspeakable New York: A Literary History (New York: Beacon Press, 1997), pp.219–220, excerpt available online at Google Books.
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- ISBN 978-0571294848, p. 248. Excerpts available at Google Books.
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- The Independent on Sunday, October 14, 2007.
- ^ Margot Mifflin, Book Review: Aller Retour New York Archived April 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Entertainment Weekly, January 17, 1992.
External links
- Listing for Aller Retour New York at Amazon.com.