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Plexus (The Rosy Crucifixion #2)
by
Henry Miller
'Plexus' is simply the most marvelous novel of emotions and ideas and visions and nightmares about man and society in the 20th century...' --Maxwell Geismar
Paperback, 640 pages
Published
January 13th 1994
by Grove Press
(first published 1952)
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I'm waiting until I finish the entire trilogy to write my full review. However I do have a few notes to make. There was little to no sex in this book! I know it's all saved for Sexus, but those sex scenes were so well written and so spectacularly erotic that I thought for sure some of that might seep into Plexus but no such luck. What impressed me the most was Miller's vocabulary. So much so that I kept a list of all the words he used that I had never seen before. I planned to look them all up l...more
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Second volume in the Rosy Crucifixion series. More about Henry and June, also chronicling the author's travels to the deep South, and his work as an encyclopedia salesmen (after he'd left personnel).
ReviewPraise for Henry Miller: 'American literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done.' Lawrence Durrell 'I regard Henry Miller as a master.' Colin MacInnes Praise for 'Sexus': 'A huge, sprawling narrative of Miller's life in New York, "Sexus" culminates in a description of
Maybe Miller's best book, loaded with lovely meditations on becoming a writer, crazy dream sequences and a pulpy vision of Brooklyn in the 1920s.
QUOTE: "I glanced at one manuscript after another, reading only a few lines at a time. Finally I came to my notes. They were as fresh and inspiring as when I had jotted them down. Some of them, which I had already made use of, were so provocative that I wanted to write the stories all over again, write them from a fresh, new angle. The more I unearthed,...more
QUOTE: "I glanced at one manuscript after another, reading only a few lines at a time. Finally I came to my notes. They were as fresh and inspiring as when I had jotted them down. Some of them, which I had already made use of, were so provocative that I wanted to write the stories all over again, write them from a fresh, new angle. The more I unearthed,...more
أحب طريقة هنري في ثلاثيته فهو لايتحدث عن شيء ويتحدث عن كل شيء في الوقت ذاته . مونا , الكتابة , الناس , ديستوفسكي وأسماء لاتنتهي كلها جزء من ذكرياته وجزء منه. قد يحصل أن يبدأ هنري فصله عن مونا لينهيه عن شبنغلر وكتابه انحدار الغرب بدون أن تشعر بأي تغير في السياق . يحكي قصص أصدقاءه ولاينهيها , يكتب قصته مع الكتابة ولازال حتى الآن لم يحكيها.
لم أرد للرواية أن تنتهي , فلطالما أعطتني الشعور بأن الدنيا لن تهرب وبأن الحياة جميلة فقط عندما نعيشها ببطء وبلا هموم. فبعد يوم طويل من العمل والالتزام الاجتماعي...more
لم أرد للرواية أن تنتهي , فلطالما أعطتني الشعور بأن الدنيا لن تهرب وبأن الحياة جميلة فقط عندما نعيشها ببطء وبلا هموم. فبعد يوم طويل من العمل والالتزام الاجتماعي...more
I have tried reading Henry Miller a number of times, and never got through his books, but Plexus was different. There are some passages in this book that are amazing, the way he talked about van gogh was incredible and page 404 I believe it was, incredible. Parts of the book rambled on too much for me, dream sequences that I had a hard time staying interested but most of this book was writing that is of a lost era. Its not going to happen anymore, like losing a generation....
Miller's work is all more or less the same narrative style, so it's not like Plexus distinguished itself in that way. Perhaps the only major difference I noticed was that Miller was in a (monogamous?) relationship for the entire book and his wife, Mona, is easily the most alluring character besides Miller himself. Miller's impressions of different places are usually quite brilliant (see The Air-Conditioned Nightmare) but his detour into the South here was rather tame. Overall, Plexus has the sam...more
Less dreamy than the Tropics Series, broader range of thought-streams than Sexus. This is the Miller book I'd recommend to someone who is looking to get lost in Henry Miller's fantastical prose, but who might not feel comfortable with his graphic sexual ramblings. I'm not saying there is no sex in Plexus (this is H. Miller after all), just a lot less sex. Of coarse, if one is easily offended by... anything... one should not put one's nose into a Miller novel :)
Plexus is the second and BEST novel in Henry Miller's "The Rosy Crucifixion" trilogy. Better than Tropic of Cancer (in my opinion). You'll have to go elsewhere to find a real review--I don't have the time to get into it. But I loved the book, dog-eared many pages, underlined constantly, had to tape the cover on twice, and look forward to reading it again.
This was not my favorite book of Miller's. It's excellent nonetheless. I read Tropic of Cancer and maintain my belief in its superlatively lush nature. It is a poetically profound novel without parallel and a paragon of Modern literature, but Plexus is worth reading too. It was written a couple of decades later, and though I'd heard that his later work has a maturity the earlier stuff lacked, this came at the expense of his earlier organic spontaneity. Tropic achieves the magical effect that onl...more
frankly i thought it started out pretty slow. it jumped around alot, from one locale to another without transition. most of it didn't have much thematic weight. it didn't really get good until the last hundred pages, which were phenomenal. up there with my favorite passages from capricorn.
Jun 02, 2013
Angel Serrano
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Continúan las tribulaciones en la parte baja de Manhattan: en Greenwich Village. El cambio de parejas constante, la buena vida se mezcla con la precariedad laboral y afectiva. Los amigos son un pilar de continuidad en el relato, donde lo demás importa poco.
هنري يظهر للناس نفسه .. بكل سفاله و طيبه، بكل بساطه وعفويه. تحدث ميلر في هذا العمل باجزائة عن نفسه وعن مجتمعه في اهم حقبه من حقب المجتمع الامريكي
Oct 03, 2009
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اللعنة.. انا أعرف العالم.. اعرفه جيدا جدا، لكني ارفض التفاهم معه
ليس السن ما يجعل منا حكماء، ولا حتى التجربة كما يدعي الناس، انما هى سرعة الروح.. السريعون والموتي.. انت، من بين الناس جميعا يجب ان تعرف ما اعني. هناك في هذا العالم، وفي كل عالم فئتان: السريعون والموتي.. بالنسبة الي الذين يهذبون الروح لا شئ مستحيلاً وبالنسبة للآخرين كل شئ مستحيل، او لا يصدق، او عقيم
ترجمة أسامة منزلجي
ليس السن ما يجعل منا حكماء، ولا حتى التجربة كما يدعي الناس، انما هى سرعة الروح.. السريعون والموتي.. انت، من بين الناس جميعا يجب ان تعرف ما اعني. هناك في هذا العالم، وفي كل عالم فئتان: السريعون والموتي.. بالنسبة الي الذين يهذبون الروح لا شئ مستحيلاً وبالنسبة للآخرين كل شئ مستحيل، او لا يصدق، او عقيم
ترجمة أسامة منزلجي
Veramente difficile, adoro Henry Miller, ma questo � noiosissimo. Solo per milleriani convinti, oppure consigliatelo a qualcuno che odiate.
I love to read Henry Miller in my hometown, in the summertime. He's always bumming money from someone in a dancehall on the lower east side, slumming in Brooklyn, riding the subway from one dead-end job to another. His flights of fancy are mind-numbing and uplifting. And in Plexus (volume 2 of The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy) he finally seems to be getting down to business; vol 1 Sexus was scattershot, without a point. In vol 2 he's finally dialling into a worldview, loving only one woman, and begi...more
This is a great and funny book. Sex happens, Henry does some favors, has adventures, breaks hearts, looks for himself. It's a romp!
A well read, misogynist free loader with a good turn of phrase cycles around drinking and screwing
henry miller basically owns your face.
mmmmhh, mmmmmh
yo
yo
O livro Plexus é o desprezo à sociedade das mercadorias do século XX, repúdio da ordem vigente, e manifestação do indivíduo livre. Henry Miller é um escritor boémio e libertino, nesta fase de vida se envolve nos movimentos artísticos e amigos para sobreviver sem necessitar do trabalho abstracto. Estamos perante a concepção niilista do pensamento Nietzschiano, e o mistério do escritor que foi censurado, num movimento antagónico entre Sociedade-artista.
A rambling, sometimes dense book that has rare moments of insight about the artistic life. Was 600 pages and could have been 300. Not Miller's best, but still an enjoyable read for Miller fans.
This was my favorite of the Rosy Crucifixion. And it only gets better here after. It is long and if anyone isn't in the Henry Miller Frame of mind it could appear purposeless, or better yet, directionless. However, henry miller's writing is so tight and neat, cutting and thorough that his rambling becomes disguised. It does evoke a lot of mysticism from Nostrademus to Hamsun.
This was my clear favorite in this series. Many long full-throated rants on Spengler, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, art, and the pettiness of society in general. All interspersed with even longer dream-scape chunks that remake the idea of novel or memoir or biography -- but get directly at primary motivators and the disconnectedness we feel in understanding, time, relationships, memory.
Mar 24, 2013
Lysergius
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4 of 5 stars
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Mind blowing---
It was good...I like his ideas and the way that he was free...
The Rosy Crucifixion, Sexus, Nexus, and Plexus can be purchased in one volume and provides the reader with the prose of Henry Miller at his best. Known as the "mystic of the mundane" and the "connoisseur of sewers," Miler may be one of the most influential and best writers of his age.
sexus was all about sex, it just got to be like a bad porno after a while and i dropped it halfway through. and yet somehow, plexus has almost no sex. henry is still in new york, walking around, trying to make it as a writer, scrape together a few bucks and wasting it on wine. good.
Mar 23, 2007
Jared Busch
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3 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
no one looking for dirty stuff
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I never finished this one. I pick it up now and then and read about 40 pages and then put it back down. It's just nowhere near as enthralling as Sexus. Maybe it was the shameless filthiness of Sexus that is completely missing from Plexus that made it such a ride.
I fell in love with Henry Miller reading the Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy. I read them so long ago that I don't remember the details, but I do remember that he had an insatiable appetite for life. Unfortunately, I found his Tropics books very boring.
You have to read the entire Rosy Crucifixion trilogy to get under the skin of Henry Miller. Plexus continues right where Sexus left off. This book is full of Miller's theories of the writer and the evolution of his craft.
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Henry Miller sought to reestablish the freedom to live without the conventional restraints of civilization. His books are potpourris of sexual description, quasi-philosophical speculation, reflection on literature and society, surrealistic imaginings, and autobiographical incident.
After living in Paris in the 1930s, he returned to the United States and settled in Big Sur, Calif. Miller's first tw...more
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