![]() ![]() Ohio, also decided on this day.Ī fierce opponent of censorship, Barney Rosset faced over 60 prosecutions around the country over the Tropic of Cancer, and also challenged censorship of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and other controversial works. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. Gerstein, in which the Court gave a brief per curium decision citing Jacobellis v. Henry Miller, quote from Tropic of Cancer For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. The Supreme Court case was Grove Press v. The ban was finally broken in 1961 when Grove Press, run by Barney Rosset, decided to publish the book. The narrative follows an idealistic young American expat living in Paris between the 1920s and the 1930s. The main cause of the ban was Miller’s use of the word “fuck” throughout the novel. ![]() Customs had barred it from being imported. Published in Paris in 1934, the novel was not published in the U.S. The Supreme Court ruled on this day that Henry Miller’s famous novel Tropic of Cancer was not obscene. ![]()
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