Both are centrally analyzed in Miller's books. He knew that there is no solution to the problem of man's sexual hunger. In
The World of Sex (1940) he said, "I am essentially a religious person, and always have been."
Older than Dos Passes, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald, he was not a member of the "lost generation," hesitating between exile in Montparnasse and commitment to social improvement at home. He was always the pure singer of individual freedom who was apolitical because he believed that to give up a capitalist regime for a socialist regime was simply to change masters. His personal creed may be attached in part to the European Utopian concept of the "noble savage," and in part to the American tradition of the return to nature as in Thoreau and Whitman. His sense of anarchy is partly that of Thoreau and partly that of the Beat Generation and the flower children of the 1960s.
How can one even sketch a biography of Henry Miller after his many claims that no one could write his biography? His books are his autobiography, but they are also the legend of his life and nowise do they form a biography. He often said that he told lies to fool any future biographers and lead them off his tracks.
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