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Illustrated portrait of Tania

A character in Under the Roofs of Paris

Tania

One of the women singled out by the first edition’s jacket, in a collection whose authorship remains disputed.

The book

Cover of Under the Roofs of Paris by Henry Miller
Under the Roofs of ParisHenry Miller, 1983

Six commissioned erotic pieces, published after Miller’s death under two titles — and shadowed by a serious authorship dispute.

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Who they are in the book

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Tania is named by Grove Press among the women encountered by the book’s first-person adventurer. She belongs to the six-piece volume first published as Opus Pistorum in 1983.

The public institutional evidence confirms the name but not the fuller biographical particulars that a reliable character guide would require.

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