The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller

Greece, as he mentions only once, was under a military dictatorship at this time. The Colossus of Maroussi : Henry Miller : Part lengthy diatribe against modern civilization, part poetic paean of the Greek landscape, The Colossus of Maroussi is more a voyage into Miller than it is into Greece. Miller talks about this too, about the emotional suicides in Paris and elsewhere, marouss would never come, even if he invited them. It is full of a poetic imagery that is almost entirely absent from the main stream of post-modern literature. University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. He likes no, he loves Greece, and its people, its poets, its con-men, its peasant women, its islands and its sky He says in part that Greece finally taught him the measure of a man. It’s an attempt to imagine a different, better world, and I was sympathetic to it, just as I was sympathetic to Miller’s imagining of the Greek spirit he wanted to capture, a spirit that was as much a creature of his own mind as anything else. I read it in the spring of His words still thrill me, but I can no longer colossis Greece in them. If only there were more writers like him – ahh, wishful thinking.įinally fed up with reading books according to weight, heaviest first, I finished this book in a matter of minutes today. Review quote Oc captures the spirit and warmth of the resilient Greek colosuss in his story of a wartime journey from Athens to Crete. I think Hitler is mentioned once in the book, and the impending war is mentioned a few times, but never with any of the detail that Miller brings to bear, say, on Katsimbalis. All well and good- still nothing terribly suspicious. Miller, I think, must have sounded dated sometimes even to his contemporaries, but he is rarely guilty of looking shallow in hindsight. But in our myths there is no place for the gods. Looking for beautiful books? Books by Henry Miller. Saturn is as eternal as fear and irresolution, growing more milky, more cloudy, with each compromise, each capitulation.Ĭolosus Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller.

I was never more certain that life and death are one and that neither can be enjoyed or embraced milleer the other be absent. He says quite late that Greek history is mostly meaningless. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel. Book Source: Digital Library of India Item : Henry : ioned.

Henry Miller In The Colossus of Maroussi he describes drinking from sacred springs, nearly being trampled to death by sheep and.

The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller