Bypassing American writer Miller's better known and sensational books, Mathieu focuses on The Colossus of Maroussi (1941), an account of Miller's 1939 visit to Greece. He finds there the author's literary ancestry in Orphic thinking and French poet Arthur Rimbaud's own Orphic-derived strategies. Slightly revised from the 1976 edition published by Mouton in Paris and the Hague. No index is provided. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Orpheus in Brooklyn: Rimbaud and Henry Miller

Politics & Social Sciences

Mathieu, Bertrand

Social Sciences

Florida Academic Prfess

Orpheus in Brooklyn is the first critical evaluation ever undertaken of the influence of Orphic thinking, and of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's Orphic-derived strategies on the life attitudes and literary style of Henry Miller, especially on Miller's masterpiece, The Colossus of Maroussi (1941). It provides an in-depth analysis of all the major elements of the Greek myth of Orpheus and of the multipie uses to which Rimbaud, Orpheus' greatest modern disciple, put them in his own blazing masterpieces, A Season in Hell (1873) and Illuminations (1886),  and it goes on to explain, point by Point, how a mere "Brooklyn boy" like Henry Miller succeeded in adapting these strategies to his own life and writings.

Orpheus in Brooklyn

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Apocryphile Pr

With Freeing Eurydice, Bertrand MathieU delivers his most exciting and readable work to date. This strange metaphysical adventure novel starts out in a few mundane purlieus of present-day Massachusetts and Connecticut, but it soon moves, outside time, to Athens and a number of mystery-laden Greek islands. The narrator, who has been on the brink of a total breakdown, meets and falls in love with the brilliant but erratic Greta Elspeth Brand, who is both an astrophysicist at MIT and a practicing witch in a Vermont coven. Greta impulsively decides not only to try to save her "psychic twin" but to go with him to Greece on the first leg of a bizarre personal itinerary that's designed to change life on earth for everybody! Through a weird concatenation of events, the lovers are painfully torn asunder by the appearance of the alluring vagabond-Casanova, Lucio, and the luminously beautiful Chryssa (a femme fatale from Crete who is the antithesis of Greta) as well as a number of other odd mystics, poets, and plain time-servers who will exercise the power of decisively transforming the narrator's sense of what time really means. A deeply-probing, intricately-plotted novel, filled with artful epiphanies and arresting encounters with the unforeseeable, Freeing Eurydice draws the reader into its many-leveled labyrinth of uncanny poetic discoveries and leads to a final heart-wrenching climax that will long continue to haunt (perhaps even to transfigure) its readers' lives.

Freeing Eurydice: A Neo-gnostic Fairy Tale

Droit constitutionnel et institutions politiques (2022-2023)

Ardant, Philippe

Specialties

LGDJ

Droit constitutionnel et institutions politiques (2023-2024)

Orpheus in Brooklyn: Orphism, Rimbaud, and Henry Miller (Studies in American Literature, 31)

Walter de Gruyter

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