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| Author | Henry Miller |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiographical novel |
| Publisher | Olympia Press Grove Press |
Publication date | 1956 |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 154 |
| Preceded by | Plexus |
| Followed by | Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch |
Quiet Days in Clichy is a novella written by Henry Miller. It is based on his experience as a Parisian expatriate in the early 1930s, when he and Alfred Perlès shared a small apartment in suburban Clichy as struggling writers (at 4 Avenue Anatole-France).[1][2] It takes place around the time Miller was writing Black Spring.[3][4] According to his photographer friend George Brassaï, Miller admitted the title is “completely misleading.”[5]
- ^ Robert Ferguson, Henry Miller: A Life, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991, p. 272.
- ^ George Brassaï, Henry Miller: The Paris Years, New York: Arcade Publishing, 1975 (translation copyright 1995), p. 69.
- ^ Henry Miller, Quiet Days in Clichy, New York: Grove Press, 1965, p. 41.
- ^ Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One: 1931-1934, Orlando: Harcourt, 1966, p. 92.
- ^ Brassaï, Henry Miller: The Paris Years, p. 83.