Kniga o druz'iakh - Miller G.

Henry Miller - the most prominent representative of the experimental direction in American prose of the 20th century, a daring innovator, whose best works have long been banned in his homeland, master of confessional-autobiographical novel. All his books are a kind of polemic, a conversation on an equal footing with those he considered his teachers. The Book of Friends trilogy is the last of his major works, a kind of Miller's version of The Chronicles of Lost Time, starting with the writer's Brooklyn childhood. So this is a book about friends -- about people who, without knowing it, identified Miller as a writer and as a person. After all, throughout our lives, we, like fragments of a broken mirror, reflect each other. Man is a mosaic of all that he borrowed from others. Perhaps none of Miller's books would have taken place without meeting Stasiu, Joey, Jimmy, Alec...