… he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive acceptor of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses. — George Orwell (1940)
I suppose that is the way many persons looked upon Henry Miller then, but Orwell actually liked Miller and gave high praise for his novels. Miller drifted into the background over the years, almost forgotten, until Philip Kaufman gave us Henry and June back in 1990. ...