![]() ![]() ![]() And never does he seem more Lawrentian than when writing of his own resurrection, as here, and, by extension, that of the wider world. It’s tempting to think back on that story when you pick up The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller’s ecstatic ramble through Greece in 1939 (recently reissued by New Directions) Miller was a lifelong devotee of Lawrence and spent years planning, collecting notes for, and finally completing an epic and rather chaotic work on his master. The story is set in a tenderly described Mediterranean world (an early title for Lady Chatterley’s Lover was Tenderness) and when it came out, under its original title-“The Escaped Cock”-it was published by his friends Caresse and Harry Crosby (he the nephew of J.P. ![]() “The Man Who Died” is a typically wild and visionary piece, sensual and impenitent, about the risen Jesus meeting a priestess of Isis and, true to his Chatterley origins, feeling that he can at last complete himself, as a fully living human being, only by joining her pagan rites and having semi- sacramental sex with her. ![]() Lawrence published, six months before his death, was set in the ancient world and, characteristically, preoccupied with resurrection. Henry Miller and ‘the Colossus’ George Katsimbalis, Greece, 1939 ![]()
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