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El coloso de Marusi

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Escrito en 1941, Henry Miller nos describe en El coloso de Marusi su viaje a la isla de Corfú para ver a su amigo Lawrence Durrell; a medio camino, como toda su literatura, entre la autobiografía y el surrealismo, las imágenes oníricas y el más crudo realismo, este libro narra su vivencia del año que pasará en Grecia y las islas del Egeo, de las amistades que hará y de la revelación de su propia vida. Bellísima y extraordinaria obra de viajes, es un descubrimiento interior y exterior, un reto para la civilización agónica de Occidente y un canto, al mejor estilo whitmaniano, a la dignidad de la tierra, a la ascensión espiritual y a la excepcional amistad de hombre como Durrell, Seferis o el incomparable Katsimbalis. Estamos, sin duda, ante un libro extraordinario, ante literatura con mayúsculas.

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1941

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Henry Miller

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Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York City and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.

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