Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. The novel was subsequently banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. It is a sequel to Miller's 1934 work, the Tropic of Cancer. Both Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer are published in the United States by Grove Press an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc..
The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V. Miller' works in the personnel division of the 'Cosmodemonic' telegraph company. Although the narrator's experiences closely parallel Miller's own time in New York working for the Western Union Telegraph Company, and he shares the author's name, the novel is considered a work of fiction.
The book is a story of spiritual awakening. Miller grinds down the reader with tales of poverty, suffering, and depravity, then attempts to create an experience of satiety. Much of the story surrounds his New York years of struggle with wife June Miller, and the process of finding his voice as a writer.
南回歸綫(Tropic of Capricorn),是太陽直射點回歸運動時移到最南時所在的緯綫,其緯度數值等於黃赤交角,大約在南緯23度25分。
南北回歸綫南、北回歸綫也是南溫帶、北溫帶與熱帶的分界綫;南極圈、北極圈則是90度減去回歸綫的度數,是南溫帶、北溫帶與南寒帶、北寒帶的分界綫。
每年鼕至日(12月22日左右)這一天,太陽直射點南移至此,然後又嚮北移動。南半球南回歸綫以北至北回歸綫的區域每年太陽直射兩次,獲得的熱量最多,形成為熱帶。因此南回歸綫是熱帶和南溫帶的分界綫。
南回歸綫(tropic of capricorn)的英文名起源於二千多年前(命名這條綫的時候),鼕至日太陽直射到此處時,是處在黃道十二宮的摩羯座位置。現在則由於星體運動,而移動到了人馬座的位置。