The Henry Miller Reader by Durrell Lawrence & Miller Henry

Author:Durrell, Lawrence & Miller, Henry [Durrell, Lawrence & Miller, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811225458
Goodreads: 26889654
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1959-05-01T08:00:00+00:00

LITERARY ESSAYS

THE UNIVERSE OF DEATH

(FROM MAX AND THE WHITE PHAGOCYTES)

This text really represents a “coda” to my work on D. H. Lawrence, a miss-fire book, fragments of which have appeared here and there. For over two years, beginning in Clichy, I struggled to set forth my views on Lawrence. Never did I work so hard and so assiduously, only to end up in utter confusion. Proust and Joyce I had read in America, shortly before leaving for Europe. In Clichy I reread Proust, this time in French. (I even had an Austrian, whom we were keeping in hiding from the police, make long excerpts from Proust, which I intended to elaborate on later.)

There was a connection in my mind then between Lawrence, with whom I was chiefly concerned, and Proust and Joyce. Now it is all rather vague to me. The link was, perhaps, that Lawrence represented life and the other two death. I also had plans then for another book, which never came off, and which was to deal with life-givers and death-eaters. A notebook which I kept in those days is crammed with all sorts of data, including many excerpts from “thinkers.”

During the German occupation of Europe, this text was translated into Dutch and published clandestinely, all unknown to me. Years later the translator wrote me, enclosing a copy of his work, and informed me that the printer had been killed by the Germans for printing an English text. He himself only narrowly escaped the same fate.

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