One of the world’s most well-known phrases “Catch-22” originated from the namesake book written by Joseph Heller, which is set on a fictional island in Italy during the Second World War. Photo: Penguin Books Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (1961) A work that slips between autobiography and fiction, the novel functions as a deeply mesmerizing mediation on the human condition: on sex, love, despair, loneliness, and art. “First-person, uncensored, formless – fuck everything!”įollowing through on his promise, Tropic of Cancer is an unruly, infectiously written book, following Miller’s life as a struggling writer in Paris during the 1920s-30s. “I start tomorrow on the Paris book,” wrote Henry Miller. All he had going for him was creative rage, mixed with the artistic vision of the truly avant-garde. In a review by The Guardian, Henry Miller’s life before he released Tropic of Cancer, his debut novel, was: “the quintessence of abject failure. Photo: Amazon Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (1961)
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