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Quiet Days in Clichy (novel)
''Quiet Days in Clichy'' is a novella written by Henry Miller. It is based on his experience as a Parisian expatriate in the early 1930s, when he and Alfred Perlès shared a small apartment in suburban Clichy as struggling writers (at 4 Avenue Anatole-France).〔Robert Ferguson, ''Henry Miller: A Life'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991, p. 272.〕〔George Brassaï, ''Henry Miller: The Paris Years'', New York: Arcade Publishing, 1975 (translation copyright 1995), p. 69.〕 It takes place around the time Miller was writing ''Black Spring''.〔Henry Miller, ''Quiet Days in Clichy'', New York: Grove Press, 1965, p. 41.〕〔Anaïs Nin, ''The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One: 1931-1934'', Orlando: Harcourt, 1966, p. 92.〕 According to his photographer friend George Brassaï, Miller admitted the title is “completely misleading.”〔Brassaï, ''Henry Miller: The Paris Years'', p. 83.〕
==Plot==
The plot follows Joey, an American expatriate in and around Place Clichy. The book is divided in two parts. In the first, Joey and his equally destitute roommate Carl search for food and navigate relationships with various women. Chiefly, Joey with Nys, a prostitute he meets at the Café Wepler near Montmartre, and Carl with Colette, a fifteen-year-old runaway who moves in with them before eventually being retrieved by her parents.
The second half, “Mara-Marignon,” describes Carl’s volatile love affair with the married Eliane, and Joey’s relationship with Mara, a prostitute he meets on the Champs-Élysées. Mara reminds Joey of a previous lover, the married Christine, who he regrets not marrying himself. This leads to a recollection of an evening he and Carl spent at their home with an acrobat named Corinne and a Danish woman, named Christine. The four of them have a spontaneous orgy, which upsets Christine, who is laughed at by the other three.
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