Plexus

Radiant in a new love nest in an aristocratic area of Brooklyn, Henry Miller and Mona live only for each other, dedicated to pleasure and dreams, with their eyes on the future and little more than nothing in their pockets. The stability of his job at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company loses all appeal, and, encouraged by Mona, Miller then throws himself body and soul into his greatest passion, writing. The central novel of the scandalous and semi-autobiographical Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, Plexus focuses on the early years of the author's second marriage, years of precarious balance between love and obsession, between destitution and grandeur, between despair and the celebration of existence, years that are also the beginning of his admirable literary career. This text, first published in France in 1953 and banned for over a decade in the United States of America and Great Britain, opens a privileged window into the values, beliefs, and opinions of one of the twentieth century's most irreverent authors and is a passionate portrait of his time.