Henry Miller is the most prominent representative of the experimental trend in American prose of the 20th century, a daring innovator whose best works have long been banned in his homeland, the master of the confessional-autobiographical novel. The story “The Devil in Paradise” (presented in the new edition) is a kind of parable about the failed salvation, about the fact that all benevolence is inevitably punished, about the failure of the dialogue of two fatalisms: Old European astrology and the new-fangled Eastern Zen at that time. The novel “Under the Roofs of Paris” (published in a new translation) is perhaps the most scandalous work of the modern classics. This book, which Norman Mailer called "the best erotic novel of our time", Miller wrote in 1941 on the order of a Los Angeles bookseller, receiving a dollar per page, and the initial circulation was five typewritten copies.