It is an erotic burlesque that was originally published anonymously in Paris in 1953.
The plot follows an unnamed narrator who enters a surrealist nightmare of debauchery and violence when he crosses the street to the castle of Gamehuche.
Tropic of Capricorn is another legendary erotic novel by Henry Miller, published in 1938. Due to the inserted philosophy, it is somewhat difficult to understand. In this work, Henry is in Paris, but he actually remembers his childhood in New York.