Blinder, Caroline. 1998. La Révolte Enfantine: On Georges Bataille's “La Morale de Miller” and Jean-Paul Sartre's “Un Nouveau Mystique”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 40(1), pp. 39-47. ISSN 0011-1619 [Article]

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In 1946, Daniel Parker—the self-proclaimed “Président du Cartel d'Actions Sociales et Morales”—threatened to take legal action on the grounds of obscenity against the publication in French of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and Black Spring.1 The subsequent “Affaire Miller” brought Henry Miller's authorship to the forefront of a literary debate on obscenity and censorship and resulted in the formation of a “Defense Committee for Miller and Free Expression.” Among its members were such literary figures as André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Robert Queaneau, and a number of other well-known writers.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619809601563
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Dates:	Date Event 1998 Published
Item ID:	12936
Date Deposited:	26 Aug 2015 09:08
Last Modified:	23 Jun 2017 14:57
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/12936

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