Volume 1 and Volume 2
1962
Third edition.

Published by Carrefour.

This book is a correspondence between Michael Frankel and Henry Miller.

Hamlet is used as a point of departure; and the sharp clash of personality between the authors serves to give dramatic form to the underlying theme which is the crisis of consciousness. Here is a bold, original attempt to state the modern problem in its ultimate terms and to fix Hamlet in a contemporary frame of reference.

Michael Fraenkel (1896–1957) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic . In 1930, he founded Carrefour Editions with the expatriate American publisher and poet Walter Lowenfels. Fraenkel published an essay, Bastard Death: The Autobiography of an Idea, in 1936, in which for the first time appears an extract from a letter from Henry Miller.

Henry Valentine Miller (1891 – 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism.

190mm x 260mm x 40mm

R1,500