Nexus - Brossura

Miller, Henry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0006547052 ISBN 13: 9780006547051

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1993

Riassunto

The third book of a trilogy of novels known collectively as "The Rosy Crucifixion". It is autobiographical and tells the story of Miller's bizarre second marriage and its development into an extraordinary and legendary menage a trois.

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L'autore:

Henry Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York. He had a variety of jobs as a young man, including several years working for the Western Union Telegraph Company. During this time, encouraged by June Mansfield Smith, the second of his five wives, Miller began to write. Aside from articles, stories for pulp magazines and prose poems, Miller worked on his first novels ‘Crazy Cock’ and ‘Moloch’, and on the copious notes which would eventually transmute into the notorious ‘Tropics’ books.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

'Goodbye, dear Pocohantas! Goodbye, P.T. Barnum! Goodbye, Street of Early Sorrows and may I never set eyes on you again!'

When Henry Miller left America for Paris in the 1930s 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 letmotif for some of Miller's finest writing, embodying everything he felt about self-liberation and the true life of the spirit.

'Nexus', the final volume in the 'Rosy Crucifixion' trilogy, is a fictionalised and tempestuous last few months in New York. Trapped in a bizarre 'ménage à trois' with his volatile actress wife, Mona, and her eccentric lover, Stasia, Miller's life descends into violent and passionate anarchy. Demoralised, exhausted and finally abandoned by the cunning and disloyal Mona, he sails for Paris.

“Scintillating, bewildering, profound, 'Nexus' has a kind of brawling magnificence that could only emerge from the mind and imagination of a genuine artist.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH

“'Nexus' begins with the release from an asylum of Stasia, the strange bohemian friend of Mona, who adds chaos to an already chaotic household. Her presence leads to the introduction of a series of odd, hilarious and pathetic characters whose feelings of joy and wretchedness are expressed in a torrent of frank dialogue, intermixed with passionate discussions on matters intellectual. Miller gives full rein to his knowledge of human beings and finds obvious delight in writing about an erotic, disorderly sort of existence.”
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• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0006547052
• ISBN 13: 9780006547051
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320