Raison Sociale Entreprise


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Raison Sociale Entreprise

Raison Sociale Entreprise

Any man who sings of the inherent beauty and freedom of emptying his bladder in a public urinal with ‘the sun splashing over [him]’ as Miller does in Black Spring, 1936, Obelisk Press, IBSN 0-8021-3182-4, will always be a friend of the irreverent. To speak of such bodily delights during a period so darkly under the shadow of a fast approaching world war simply redoubles the alliance.

Henry Miller slept, without a doubt, on a burning bed. Not a restful, drowsy sleep, of course, but a fitful, spasmodic thing, riddled with magnificent, whirling, Technicolor dreams, all communicated to the reader in the morning, or on a Saturday afternoon while urinating freely in a ‘pissotiere’, under the twittering birds.

How to Transcend Socio-political Conditions

It was Miller’s characteristic irreverence which allowed him to transcend the social and political conditions of the mid to late thirties. Miller displays only marginal social and next to no political context because he did not allow any conscience to hold forth in these areas, and perhaps the first question that ought to be asked is: why should he have?