Henry Miller Recalls and Reflects [Interview 1956] (3/9)

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14 жыл бұрын

This is a rare interview conducted in New York in 1956 with author Henry Miller and his friend Ben Grauer engaged in a lengthy, candid and insightful discussion about his life, his work and what it means to live the true life of the spirit.

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@nelliemcsprackel2442 5 жыл бұрын

I wrote my Honours dissertation about Henry Miller. I know he would have said, "Stop wasting time writing about me and get on with your own life."

@d3a1990 4 жыл бұрын

This man inspires me to go after it all.

@victormorgado5318 Жыл бұрын

I found him to be the first genuine and honest voice of a "friend" who understood. I felt the loneliness he describes in the 1956 interview posted in you tube., concerning the artists and poets of the 19 century face to face to the new materialistic progress and rationalism of that period when it all began. I felt the isolation within my puerto rican culture and within the american culture and the marginalization of minorities during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the struggle of the counter culture vs war and materialism, so Henry Miller was a welcomed voice from an elder who we could trust back then. I perhaps followed his example in a both, tragic and fruitful ways. When I discovered his paintings in a college library, his narration, the colors, his attitude gave me the courage to return to painting full time seven years later, his self imposed exile in Paris, was the tragic side for me but at the end it was good as well. I quit my permanent easy super well payed job in Brooklyn, New york in 1984, to embarked for France where I eventuatlly remained ten years as well. Ten years later I returned to New York and I got my easy job as an interpreter back , and continued working for 30 years, rounding up a period of 40 years back to back since that adventure began. I am now retired and ready for my promise land...

@struttingbirdlofi 3 жыл бұрын

What a life, what courage this man had.

@damasiolopes-wc4iz 4 ай бұрын

GRANDE.ESCRITOR.ESTADUNIDENSE.HOMEM.DE.MUITA.CORAGEM.DO.SECULO.20.😮😮😮😊😊😊

@richardgonzalesgonzales3529 4 жыл бұрын

The Only Truly “FREE WRITER” ; and therefore: THE PUREST ... THE GREATEST ... THE MOST IMPORTANT ... THE ONLY ONE in a long line of scribblers since the first hand dictators of Christs’ every utterance , worth reading .

@brandonterzic 4 жыл бұрын

thank God what you say is not true...but I understand the sentiment.

@MrGunwitch 6 жыл бұрын

Superb, thanks for posting!

@floydyopz 13 жыл бұрын

Great to hear the Old Chinaman again, as it were, doncha know?

@eastwoofer 7 жыл бұрын

fucking beautiful, man

@omarkayham6352 10 жыл бұрын

Fucking great;

@SIGHBOY6 10 жыл бұрын

this is great

@thomasmcgrath7806 11 жыл бұрын

D'you see?

@Schizopantheist 6 жыл бұрын

Thomas McGrath Dontcha know?

@reaganwiles_art 5 жыл бұрын

"you don't beat the game, anyway, you know"

@corsoconner 10 ай бұрын

Henry Miller is a human treasure. He was a genius who encompassed and transcended this mortal coil. He was courageous and exemplary as an artist and generous to a fault. He lived and set the high watermark to be human. Sadly in today's reactionary and woke fascism, Henry's voice has been sidelined by Tweets and a degraded homoginous culture. His voice will rise again!

@filmbuff4 Ай бұрын

woke communism, not fascism.

@chrisballas3356 2 күн бұрын

@@filmbuff4woke communism? You are clueless. Go find some human qualities.