In this now world-famous and filmed book, the immortal Henry Miller appears as a prophet and moralist. He had to wait for years for its publication. For "Quiet Days in Clichy" is not, as the title might suggest, an idyll in the work of "the most obscene writer in world literature." Whether it is that his narrator Joey approaches the girl Nys, whom he meets in the café, or Mara-Marignan, who turns around to look at him on the Champs-Élysées: Joey's adventures are marked by astonishing cheerfulness. Whether a mother is exposed under the screams of her children or Joey shares a bath with two prostitutes while having bread and wine, his actions are almost always accompanied by laughter and are immersed in wild exuberance. At the same time, Henry Miller conjures up the Paris of the 1930s and its atmosphere.