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Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Henry Miller. Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L'Affaire Miller, and publisher Maurice Girodias saw himself threatened with jail , following in with Plexus, and finally concluding with 's Nexus, the three works are a dazzling array of scenes, sexual encounters and ideas, covering Miller's final days in NY, his relationship with June Miller and her lover, his take on the arts, his favorite writers, his thoughts, his insights, his days and his nights, finally ending with a glorious farewell to the life he'd known and an anticipation of the life he would lead. Loading interface

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Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. The Rosy Crucifixion 1 Sexus. Henry Miller. Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in s Paris his 'rosy crucifixion'. His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation was banned for nearly twenty years. Sexus, the first volume in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the playful, teasing dance hall hostess who will become the great obsession of his life. Loading interface About the author. Henry Miller books 4, followers. Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism.

His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation was banned for nearly twenty years.

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The nature of mankind; the good, the bad, and the ugliness of human existence. What, did he calculate, could get us human animals to pay attention for more the a few seconds? To hear what he needed us to hear? Sex, of course. Brash, loud, graphic, uncomfortable, squirmy, steamy sex. And now that he has our attention, here lies the blood life of his message: "Everybody becomes a healer the moment he forgets about himself.

HENRY MILLER was an American writer and painter infamous 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 distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. Purchase options and add-ons. Report an issue with this product or seller. Previous page. Book 1 of 3. The Rosy Crucifixion. Print length.

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A wholly new life lay before me, had I the courage to risk all. When Henry Miller left America for Paris in the s to lead the life of a literary bohemian, he called this death of his former existence and his resurrection as a writer a 'rosy crucifixion'. This dramatic transformation provided the leitmotif for some of Miller's finest writing, embodying everything he felt about self-liberation and the true life of the spirit. Frantically seeking antidotes to his dreary job and life 'in a morbidly respectable neighbourhood' with his wife Maude, Miller becomes obsessed with the promiscuous and mysterious Mara, dance hall hostess, femme fatale and pathological liar. First published in Paris in , this picaresque, extraordinarily candid tale of Miller's sexual escapades amongst the low-life of Brooklyn was banned in Great Britain and America for nearly twenty years. Account Options Ieiet. Henry Miller. The extraordinarily candid tale of Miller's sexual escapades amongst the low-life of Brooklyn, banned in Great Britain and America for nearly twenty years after its first publication in His most famous works, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, were written while Miller was an expatriate living in Paris and were originally published in France in the mids.

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The skin itself was just a bag in which was loosely collected a rather messy outfit of bones, muscles, sinews, blood, fat, lymph, bile, urine, dung and so on. The reader immediately notes that it is almost Maude who asks him. I'm still reeling from everything that's in the book, most of which i feel was lost on me. Audible 0 editions. Edition Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. I love this and Nexus and Plexus as well. I'm glad I have read this book, as it was an interesting one to sit and unpick, and it has also solidified my love for Nin. I've read most of them, often a number of times. Miller, Henry Sexus is also the most disorganized with constant digressions, reminiscences, aud other excursions, interrupting the main thread.

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In this state of abeyance not even the miraculous Sovietization of the world could rouse a spark of enthusiasm in him. Sex is a huge part of most people's lives, be it actually having sex or merely thinking about it. Leinen mit SU. In fact, one gets giddy and excited towards the end of 'Nexus' and not just because one will be able to close the book permanently when Miller gets on the boat to Paris. But a Jap you could trust' , implicit homophobia 'he was a bit queer, wasn't he? H Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: I've read most of them, often a number of times. In the book Miller offers some of the most touching and vivid and realistic, in my opinion phenomenologies of contemporary sexual life. What spoke were the nerves, the ductless glands, the spleen, the liver, the kidneys, the little blood vessels lying close to the surface of the skin. Want to read. Proceed to Basket. What, did he calculate, could get us human animals to pay attention for more the a few seconds?