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May. 16th, 2007 09:14 amI finished Henry Miller's "Crazy Cock" on Wednesday evening, but haven't had a chance to write about it because of our trip. This book was written before "Tropic of Cancer", but wasn't published until 1991.
The writing starts out very uneven and often stilted. You can see the voice smoothing out and growing as you work your way through the book. In the beginning it starts with jagged segues between plain language and old fashioned romantic paragraphs. As the work proceeds the poetry becomes less extreme and the plain language more interesting.
I think the characters in this book get more depth and complexity than Millers other works which I've read. I can't say I had sympathy for the June character (Hildred), but at least she has some depth here. All the characters are flawed, blind, flailing, and human. I like the fact that you get to see a little bit of humanity in all the major characters, I think this is missing for the most part in the other Miller books I've read.
Outside the book, the fact that Henry, June, and Jean, completely confused and unhinged people, could live together and not kill each other makes me think that humans are quite capable of pulling off complicated multi-person relationships.
32. Henry Miller "Crazy Cock"
The writing starts out very uneven and often stilted. You can see the voice smoothing out and growing as you work your way through the book. In the beginning it starts with jagged segues between plain language and old fashioned romantic paragraphs. As the work proceeds the poetry becomes less extreme and the plain language more interesting.
I think the characters in this book get more depth and complexity than Millers other works which I've read. I can't say I had sympathy for the June character (Hildred), but at least she has some depth here. All the characters are flawed, blind, flailing, and human. I like the fact that you get to see a little bit of humanity in all the major characters, I think this is missing for the most part in the other Miller books I've read.
Outside the book, the fact that Henry, June, and Jean, completely confused and unhinged people, could live together and not kill each other makes me think that humans are quite capable of pulling off complicated multi-person relationships.
32. Henry Miller "Crazy Cock"
