Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer" (20 page)

29,
34
-35,
36
,
38
-39; and talk,
28
,
31
,
46
,
52
-53,
78
-79,
155
,
22
on5; and Twain,
47
,
50
,
52
; and Yankees,
28
-29,
170

American Grotesque,
13
,
44

American literature: and democracy,
46
; folklore in,
41
,
42
-43; subliterary reality,
56
; Twain’s impact on,
41
,
46
-47; and vernacular,
41
-42,
44
,
46
-47,
53
-54; Whitman’s impact on,
16

American people: as “great beast”,
23
-27,
30
; and hardships,
24
,
26
; and national character,
20
,
26
-27,
28
,
29
,
71
,
72
,
220
n6

American tourists,
5
,
124
,
210

American vernacular,
41
-42,
44
,
46
-47,
53
-54

Ames, Fisher,
23

Anarchism,
12
,
21
-23,
80
,
33
,
171
:72,
178

Anderson, Sherwood,
97

Apollinaire, Guillaume,
134

Arno, Peter,
108

Art, definition of,
104

Artaud, Antonin,
158
,
179

Atget, Eugene,
148
-49

Avant-garde artists,
130
,
131
-35,
149
,
223
n16

Bald, Wambly,
161
-62,
187
,
191

Baltard, Victor,
126

Barr, Cecil,
180

Baux, Jeanne-Pierre,
222
n14

Beat writers,
160

Bigotry,
112
.
See also
Prejudices

Blavatsky, Helena,
82

Blues,
14

Boone, Daniel,
30

Borowski, Stanley,
62

Bradley, William A.,
172
,

Brancusi, Constantin,
136

Braque, Georges,
132

Brassa’i (Gyula Halasz): detachment of,
153
-54,
223
n20; HM’s friendship with,
148
-50; impression of June Miller,
224
n24; and Klein,
160
A Man Dies in the Street,
153; in
Tropic of Cancer,
192

Breton, Andre,
134
,
136

Brooklyn, New York: HM’s adult life in,
75
-76,
80
,
89
-90,
91
,
92
,
104
-7, iii,
127
,
136
,
156
; HM’s youth in,
6
,
10
,
58
,
61
-63 ,
65
-66,
68
-72 ,
221
n10

Buddhism,
225
n28

Buffalo Bill,
20

Bunuel, Luis,
129
-30,
132
,
164
-65,
172

Burlesque,
10
,
41
-42,
62
,
71
-72

Burr, Aaron,
22

Burroughs, William,
184

Calder, Alexander (Sandy),
151

California, HM’s work as agricultural laborer, ii ,
76
-77,
78
,
79
-80,
81
,
221
n12

Capitalism: slaughterhouse of,
96
,
97
,
128
; and World War I,
134
.
See also
Economic advancement

Carney, Eddie,
62

Celine, Louis Ferdinand,
180

Chicago Tribune,
128,
139
-40,
161
,
167
,
170
-71

Un Chien Andalou
(film),
129
-30,
131
,
135

Chighizola, Louis (Nez Coupe),
37
,
220
n7

Chouteau, Pauline,
75
-76,
87
,
168

Christmas, Annie,
36
-37,
42

Cirque Medrano,
140
,
146

La Closerie des Lilas,
126
,
127
,
128
-29

Coates, Robert M.,
33
-34

Cocteau, Jean,
129
-30,
132

Columbus, Christopher,
17
-19,
24
,
219
n1

Conestoga Indians, massacre of,
219
-20n3

Conrad, Joseph,
147

“Cosmodemonic Telephone Company”,
96
-97,
139

Crane, Stephen,
137

Creativity,
14
-15,
106
,
114
,
115
,
141
,
175

Cresap, Michael,
32

Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John,
Letters from an American Farmer,
23-26,
43
,
44
,
51
,
123
,
219
n2,
219
-20n3

Crockett, Davy,
30
-32,
42

Dada,
131
,
133

Dali, Salvador,
129
,
132
,
158

Dekobra, Maurice,
129
-30

Democratic system,
21
-25,
46
,
48

Depression,
123
,
125
,
170
-71

Derain, Andre,
158

Dexter, Paul,
86

Dilthey, Wilhelm,
59

Documentaries, defining,
153
,
223
n20

Doisneau, Robert,
223
n20

Le Dome,
126
,
127

Donleavy, J. P.,
185

Dorment, Richard,
222
-23n16

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,
87
,
147

Draft Riots of July 1863,
39

Duchamp, Marcel,
136

Economic advancement,
82
,
128

Eluard, Paul,
136

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
42
,
43
-44,
49
,
55
,
82
,
187
-88

Ethnic slurs,
70
,
211
nii Evans, Walker,
223
n20

Expatriation,
14
,
123
,
126
,
127
,
136
,
155
,
171
,
195
-96

Failure: HM’s confrontation of,
155
; and HM’s employment,
122
; HM’s failed novels,
6
,
7
,
98
,
99
,
104
,
109
-10,
121
,
131
,
155
-56; HM’s sense of,
4
,
107
,
124

Farrell, James T.,
183
,
184

Faulkner, William,
182
-83

Feminist movement,
174

Fink, Mike,
31
-33 ,
37
,
39
,
42
,
51
,
64
,
201

Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
The Great Gatsby,
24;
Tender Is the Night,
182

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley,
80

Folklore.
See
American folklore

Les Forts,
126
,
127
,
138

Foster, Stephen,
179

Foujita, Tsuguharu,
158

Fraenkel, Michael,
154
,
157
-59,
179
,
191

Franklin, Benjamin,
219
-20n3 ,
220
n4

Freedman, Roland (Pop),
108
-9, iii

French language,
121
,
123
,
148
,
223
n17

Freud, Sigmund,
87
,
93
,
225
n28

Frontier experience: and justice,
34
; and national character,
26
-27,
29
,
72
,
220
n6; and renegades,
14
,
208
; and Twain,
47
.
See also
Wilderness

Genet, Jean,
184

Ginsberg, Allen,
184

Girty, Simon,
208

Goldman, Emma,
80
,
81
,
155

Gran Torino
(film),
221
n11

Grosz, George,
134

Grove Press, American edition of
Tropic of Cancer,
5 ,
184
,
221
n9

Guiler, Hugh (Hugo),
164

Haeckel, Ernst,
59

Haggard, H. Rider,
65

Hall, Aaron,
20

Hamilton, Alexander,
23

Hamsun, Knut,
Hunger,
141

Happenings,
133

Harpe brothers,
34
-35,
42

Harris, Frank,
89

Harris, George Washington,
49

Harvard Classics,
71

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
43
,
49

Haywood, Big Bill,
80
,
81
,
155

Hemingway, Ernest,
126
,
181
-82

Hemmings, Sally,
219
n2

Henty, G. A.,
65

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
55

Hooper, Johnson J.,
49

Howells, William Dean,
46
,
222
n13

Humor: and American folklore,
28
,
33
,
41
,
42
,
47
; and cheap comedy,
113
; cruelty in,
5
,
13
,
15
,
41
,
44
,
64
,
72
,
109
,
191
-92,
198
-201; and HM’s talk,
92
; and Twain,
47
,
48
,
53
,
54

Improvisation,
13
-14,
152

Jackson, Andrew,
37

James, Henry, ii Jarry, Alfred,
133
,
134

Jazz,
14
,
38
,
189

Jefferson, Thomas,
21
,
24
,
219
n2

Jews,
69
-70,
85
,
109
,
112

Joyce, James,
147

Kahane, Jack: and HM’s essay on Lawrence,
176
-77,
178
; as publisher for
Tropic of Cancer,
5,
173
,
176
,
178
,
179
-80,
215
; as publisher of
Tropic of Capricorn,
215-16

Kann, Fred,
151

Kant, Immanuel,
59

Kerouac, Jack,
160

Kertesz, Andre,
148
-49

Kessel, Joseph,
168

Kiowa Dutch,
208
-9

Klein, Roger,
160

Kronski, Jean,
107
-8,
112
-13 ,
116
,
224
n23

Lafitte, Jean,
37

Lange, Dorothea,
223
n20

Lawlessness,
4
,
5
,
12
-13,
26
-27,
176
,
179
.
See also
Outlaws

Lawrence, D. H.: and American folklore,
170
; HM’s essay on,
176
-77,
178
; HM’s opinion of,
147

Nin’s study of,
164
,
165

Studies in Classic American Literature,
165

Lawson, Jack,
63

Lee, Light Horse Harry,
22
-23

Lincoln, Abraham,
46
-47

Logan (Mingo chief),
32

Lomax, Alan,
38
,
43

Longfellow, Henry Wads-worth,
55

Lowenfels, Walter,
157
,
159
,
179
,
191

McCormick, Robert,
128

MacLeish, Archibald,
219
ni Madison, James,
22

Mailer, Norman,
56
,
100

Male superiority,
13
,
75

Mann, Thomas,
147

Marlowe, Christopher,
56

Marx, Karl,
59

Mason, Samuel,
34
,
35
-36

Masters, Edgar Lee,
97

Matisse, Henri,
132
,
136

Melville, Herman,
49
,
50
,
117
,
220
n4

Miller, Barbara (daughter),
88
,
99
,
104

Miller, Beatrice Wickens (wife),
87
,
88
,
95
,
99
,
104

Miller, Henry: and American nationality,
4
,
8
,
9
,
12
,
13
-15,
91
,
136
,
156
,
210
; artistic audacity of,
56
; attitude toward America culture,
8
-9,
12
,
17
,
80
-81 ,
91
,
96
-97,
101
,
117
,
124
,
180
,
224
n26; autobiographical nature of,
57
-58; avoiding responsibility,
67
-68; childhood and youth of,
58
-66 ,
67
,
68
-72 ,
221
n10; education of,
69
,
70
-73 ,
75
; as expatriate,
14
,
126
,
136
,
171
; fame in 1960s,
104
,
217
-18; and foul language,
66
,
221
n10; as freelance journalist,
12
; German ethnicity of,
9
,
57
,
58
-61 ,
65
,
66
,
221
n9; as huckster,
9
,
30
; literary reputation of,
5
-6; as mythologizer,
57
-58; as novelist,
12
; occupations of,
11
-12,
72
-73,
76
-81,
83
,
84
-87,
89
,
90
,
95
-96,
122
,
139
-40,
158
,
161
,
221
n12; and quotidian life,
9
; reading of,
65
,
69
,
80
,
85
,
87
,
89
,
91
,
105
-6,
147
,
177
; rebellious nature of,
61
,
88
,
130
,
131
,
169
; and remembering,
9
-11 ,
114
; as renegade,
14
-15,
56
,
165
,
208
,
224
-25n26; reputation as “gangster author”,
5
,
176
,
179
; as tale spinner,
15
,
77
,
78
-79,
92
; temperament of,
13
; treatment of women,
61
; watercolors,
176
,
179
,
216
-17.
See also
Failure; Paris, France; Sexuality; Talk; Writing —works of:
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare,
8;
Black Spring,
ii ,
64
,
100
,
176,
216
;
The Books in My Life,
187,
223
n16;
Clipped Wings,
97-98,
109
-10,
112
;
Crazy Cock,
131,
135
,
140
,
144
,
146
,
156
,
158
,
159
,
163
-64,
166
,
170
,
172
-73,
223
n22;
The Last Book,
171,
172
,
173
,
188
;
Lovely Lesbians,
112-14,
115
;
Moloch, or This Gentile World,
70,
109
,
110
,
112
,
113
,
114
,
131
,
140
,
156
,
170
;
Remember to Remember,
8;
The Rosy Crucifixion,
100;
The Time of Assassins,
128,
143
;
Tropic of Capricorn,
59,
96
-97,
100
,
101
-3,
173
,
176
,
215
,
216
,
217
,
224
n25. See also
Tropic of Cancer
(Miller)