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American novelist Henry Miller can be placed on a par with such prominent modernist writers of the twentieth century as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett, because their works forever changed the very boundaries of literature as art.

Miller's most famous novel«Tropic of Cancerwhich is a kind of scandalous and explosive mixture of autobiography and fiction, tells about the tumultuous bohemian life of a poor and always hungry American writer in Paris in the 1930s, in which it is easy to recognise the author's alter ego. First published in France by the Obelisk Press, a publishing house that specialised in pornographic English-language literature, Miller's work remained banned in the United States and the United Kingdom for about 30 years, which, however, did not prevent it from quickly gaining the cult status it still holds today.

Uncompromisingly frank and provocatively daring, written by a writer with a fine sense of language and an artist's eye,  «Tropic of Cancer» Henry Miller&— is one of the cornerstones of modernist literature of the twentieth century, which even today makes us question everything we know about art, freedom and morality.