Henry Miller - Pesadelo em Ar Condicionado

After ten years of exile in Europe, Henry Miller returns to the United States to embark on a journey of rediscovering the roots and soul of his country.

A Nightmare in Air Conditioning (1945) is the account of this odyssey: upon the ruins of the American dream rise hypocritical industries and aberrant cities, meccas of business, greed and trinkets, the living dead buried in credit and prejudice, people with dollar signs in their eyes divorced from the land they tread and exploit.

And yet, in the cracks of this aesthetic and spiritual void, emerge men and women who, like the author, await the downfall of a sick, alienating system, doomed to failure.

In disconcertingly insightful prose, from the open window of his car, Henry Miller paints an unflinching portrait of a country we still recognize today: a country of great hopes, betrayed promises, and insurmountable contradictions.