Letters from Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0595002005 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Joyce Howard's editing is sympathetic and perceptive, and her brief introduction to the letters clearsighted and moving. Some time after Miller's death, Hoki Tokuda Miller asked Joyce Howard to work on the correspondence, and make a selection from the hundreds of letters, cards, photos and articles which Henry had bequeathed Hoki. She met Hen
Miller Is A Pathetic Old Man Donald Ford (dford@midrivers.com) This collection of letters makes Henry Miller look like a pathetic old geezer. Miller, who if you read multiple biographic works on him, never was much of a "real person", but some kind of morphic creature who would become fascinated with something for a while & his entire existence would be geared towards that thing. Sometimes it was UFOs, sometimes the idea of what he thought China was.seemingly anything and everything, just so long as Miller could run away & hide from being an actual individual. During the part of his life covering these letters, he was in his "Japanese phase". Hoki Miller was an at. Amazing Collections Of Letters! August747@aol.com This is a great collection of letters that will give great insight to Henry Miller's fans. The letters follow this tumultuous relationship & show Henry Miller at his most childish and pathetic. Hoki was a scam artist extraordinaire & Henry went along for the ride, while paying for the car, the insurance, gas, food along the way, etc. This is a must read for any Henry Miller fan. Others will find it kind of pointlessly pitiful.
Some time after Miller's death, Hoki Tokuda Miller asked Joyce Howard to work on the correspondence, and make a selection from the hundreds of letters, cards, photos and articles which Henry had bequeathed Hoki. . She met Henry Miller through her friendship with Anais Nin, when Miller was in his late seventies and living in Pacific Palisades. About the Author Joyce Howard's editing is sympathetic and perceptive, and her brief introduction to the letters clearsighted and moving
They chart the infatuation, marriage and eventual disillusionment of Miller with his fifth wife Hoki Tokuda, a talented Japanese musician almost fifty years his junior. These letters, penned by the controversial author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring, represent Henry Miller's sexual and moral summing-up. Henry Miller described himself as a confused, negligent, reckless, lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful manfilled with wisdom and nonsense. In its almost dangerous candor and its melancholy recogn