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The Pink Crucifixion Series

This series delves into the profound and often uncomfortable truths of human existence, art, and freedom. It explores the lives and works of significant, albeit controversial, literary figures, uncovering their inner struggles and creative processes. The texts are imbued with philosophical reflections and a struggle for artistic independence.

Nexus
Plexus
Sexus

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Sexus

    • 499 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    'I was approaching my thirty-third year, the age Christ was crucified. A wholly new life lay before me.' Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s 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 Crucifixiontrilogy, 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. 'American Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done.' Lawrence Durrell

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  2. Plexus

    • 464 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work Exploring one man's desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry Miller's scandalous semi-autobiographical trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn, as he takes his first steps towards becoming a writer.

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  3. Nexus

    Nexus is the third volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life workThe exhilarating final volume of Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical trilogy, Nexus follows his last months in New York. Trapped in a bizarre ménage-à-trois with his fiery wife Mona and her lover Stasia, he finds his life descending into chaos. Finally, betrayed and exhausted, he decides to leave America and sail for Paris, to discover his true vocation as a writer.

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