The Rosy Crucifixion

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.

Sexus

Book One, Sexus (1949) details his divorce from his first wife up until his early marriage to his second wife, June Miller. 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.^[1]

Plexus

Plexus (1953) is the second book in Henry Miller'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.

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 June) and her lover, Anastasia (a fictional character for Jean Kronski), and the period before his departure to Paris, France.

See also

Novels portal

• Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

References

1. ^ "France Lifts Its Long Ban On Henry Miller's 'Sexus'". The New York Times. November 20, 1968. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00C1EF83F59147493C2AB178AD95F4C8685F9.