The Devil At Large
“— ANAÏS NIN, HENRY AND JUNE THE CREATION OF A book is a rite of passage for the author even more than for the reader. It is a way of stripping down to the essential being, a self-analysis far more profound than any professionally guided psychoanalysis and a way of remaking oneself spiritually. It is for this act of self-transformation that writers write. And they are fortunate when they recognize this, because such self-transformation is the only truly dependable reward of writing.
After Cancer..., Henry was released to write other things. Black Spring, a book he originally called Self-Portrait, remained “one of my favorite books” as he inscribed my copy in 1974. It is written in a sort of surrealist prose poetry. It is the most exuberant of his books, full of the colors, sounds, and smells of life. It reeks of his joy in Paris.
He was working on Black Spring even as he revised (four times at least) Tropic of Cancer, wrote endless letters to Anaïs Nin, and nearly lost himself in the book on Lawrence he was destined never to finish.MoreLess
After Cancer..., Henry was released to write other things. Black Spring, a book he originally called Self-Portrait, remained “one of my favorite books” as he inscribed my copy in 1974. It is written in a sort of surrealist prose poetry. It is the most exuberant of his books, full of the colors, sounds, and smells of life. It reeks of his joy in Paris.
He was working on Black Spring even as he revised (four times at least) Tropic of Cancer, wrote endless letters to Anaïs Nin, and nearly lost himself in the book on Lawrence he was destined never to finish.MoreLess
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