miller lite
Decided this morning to check out Henry Miller again but I don’t like his reactionary undertone nor am I impressed by the realms of boring abstractions that he presents as profound insights.
Miller is usually viewed as an iconoclast but really his political message is tailored made for a whole layer of tenured intellectuals who don’t want to be bothered.
A fashionable pessimism that rationalizes an abstention from participating in the struggles against the masters of the universe.
Miller is usually viewed as an iconoclast but really his political message is tailored made for a whole layer of tenured intellectuals who don’t want to be bothered.
A fashionable pessimism that rationalizes an abstention from participating in the struggles against the masters of the universe.
posted by davef at 11:10 AM
2 Comments:
I enjoyed the picture he gave of a time, and the ability to be completely absorbed in one's self and journey. That's not all great, of course, but it kept me reading, even though I was often irritated.
I was someone totally absorbed by Anais Nin's diaries, back when I was in my mid-twenties, so I went to Miller's books with great expections. However, I was disappointed. Not with his writing, which was okay, but by his attitude toward women as really nothing more than walking cunts. I just never could get past that enough to take him seriously as either a writer or a thinker, or even a man.
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