The Rosy Crucifixion
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The Rosy Crucifixion, consisting of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, documents the period of Henry Miller
's life from his first divorce in 1928 to his departure for France in 1930.
. It takes place in New York, where Miller was born and raised and includes portraits of his many friends, lovers and acquaintances, and includes many reminiscences. Furthermore, it provides a view into Miller's ambition and struggle to become a writer—a struggle his friends barely understood.
Miller uses licentious sex scenes to set the stage for his philosophical discussions of self, love, marriage and happiness.
's fictionalized account of his early life with his second wife, Mona. Plexus describes Miller's struggles to find himself as a writer; shares with the reader many of his strange and symbolic dreams; explores Miller's various relationships with many of his friends, for example Ulric, O'Mara, and Karen; details many of Miller's intellectual passions, amidst the framework of his relationship to "Mona", a character based on his second wife, June
.
) and her lover, Anastasia (a fictional character for Jean Kronski), and the period before his departure to Paris, France.
Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is...
's life from his first divorce in 1928 to his departure for France in 1930.
Sexus
Book One, Sexus (1949) details his divorce from his first wife up until his early marriage to his second wife, June MillerJune Miller
June Mansfield Miller was the much-written-about and discussed second wife of Henry Miller.- Early life :...
. It takes place in New York, where Miller was born and raised and includes portraits of his many friends, lovers and acquaintances, and includes many reminiscences. Furthermore, it provides a view into Miller's ambition and struggle to become a writer—a struggle his friends barely understood.
Miller uses licentious sex scenes to set the stage for his philosophical discussions of self, love, marriage and happiness.
Plexus
Plexus (1953) is the second book in Henry MillerHenry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is...
's fictionalized account of his early life with his second wife, Mona. Plexus describes Miller's struggles to find himself as a writer; shares with the reader many of his strange and symbolic dreams; explores Miller's various relationships with many of his friends, for example Ulric, O'Mara, and Karen; details many of Miller's intellectual passions, amidst the framework of his relationship to "Mona", a character based on his second wife, June
June Miller
June Mansfield Miller was the much-written-about and discussed second wife of Henry Miller.- Early life :...
.
Nexus
Nexus is the third and final book in the trilogy, published in 1960. It documents Miller's troubles with his second wife Mona (who was really JuneJune Miller
June Mansfield Miller was the much-written-about and discussed second wife of Henry Miller.- Early life :...
) and her lover, Anastasia (a fictional character for Jean Kronski), and the period before his departure to Paris, France.
See also
- Le Mondes 100 Books of the CenturyLe Monde's 100 Books of the CenturyThe 100 Books of the Century is a grading of the books considered as the hundred best of the 20th century, drawn up in the spring of 1999 through a poll conducted by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde....