Literature of the Americas Literature of the Americas 2541-7894 2542-243X IWL RAS https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2018-4-163-183 Articles Russian Rhizome of American Modernism: Concerning the Problem of Henry Miller’s Anarchism 2018 Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The paper examines the way in which the completely different trend represented by Henry Miller emerged within the framework of Anglo-American modernism, which was aimed at literature and focused on impersonality and the creation of auto-reflexive texts (T.S. Eliot, E. Pound, J. Joyce). Having emigrated to France in 1930, Miller found himself in the context of European modernism; at the same time, he worked on the novel "The Tropic of Cancer" and became a practiced writer. He started to oppose modernism and held the position of a literary layman. Using the stylistic techniques of modernism, Miller dealt not with the text but with his own identity, following the traditions of Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman. 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