Published in Paris in 1936, Black Spring is a memoir narrated in the first person in which the American writer Henry Miller, in a style close to automatic writing, recreates moments of his life, from his childhood in Brooklyn at the end of the 19th century, to the Paris of the 1930s. It is structured in ten chapters, or stories, which can also be read independently, but which together form a solid novel. Dedicated to his beloved Anais Nin, the book could not be published in its entirety in the United States until 1963, since censorship prohibited several of the stories that make up it for obscenity. With a lexicon that is often surrealist, the expressive power of its images ensures an electrifying read.