In his great triptych ?The Millennium,? Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller?s title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller?s life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place?one of the most colorful in the United States?and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (and writers who did not write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks and the unclassifiable, like Conrad Moricand, the ?Devil in Paradise? who is one of Miller?s greatest character studies. Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy and brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But...
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