I first read this book several decades ago, and this must be the third or fourth time. Miller was a favourite author of mine for a long time, but I moved on to other writers. My recent read exceeded expectations. Though in theory I find the theme of a writer writing about being a writer irritating, Miller pulls it off with his exuberance and erudition. It appears part fiction, part autobiography and part philosophical discourse. The actual story line is pretty minimal, and again the theme of an American writer planning a move to Paris is rather hackneyed now.
There are certainly depictions of racist and sexist language and ideas which would be dubious in a current writer. For the most part Miller doesn't embody such ideas himself - he describes a society in which racial stereotypes abounded, and objectifying women in various ways was commonplace. Occasionally he - or his fictional character - embodies such a trait, and I can see why he was disliked by some feminists.
Despite these reservations, I find Miller a wonderfully exuberant and spontaneous writer, excessive and chaotic, but with great energy and full of mostly interesting digressions on multiple topics. With more self discipline he could perhaps have been an even greater writer.
'Nexus' starts well as a narrative of a rather hellish menage de trois, then mixes up more realist narrative with flights of reverie and imagination...and ends relatively flatly as the narrator prepares to leave a despised America for an idealised Europe.
This has faults, but some great passages, which certainly surpass most modern authors, and it holds up to a return after several decades, unlike some early favourites.

Trilogia “Răstignirea trandafirie” se încheie fericit în “Nexus” cu mult așteptata plecare spre Europa. Finanțată cu bani obținuți din scrierea primului roman semnat cu numele...soției!
Pentru mine, “experiența Miller” a fost epuizantă. Abia pe parcursul acestei trilogii, care coincide cu perioada maturizării autorului, dar și cu primele scrieri literare, am reușit să-i îndrăgesc stilul și să simt nerăbdarea de a-i citi paginile. Romanele milleriene au nevoie, deci, de timp, răbdare și o minte deschisă pentru bizarerii, erotism și nou.

Dutch translation of "The Rosy Crucifixion Book Three Nexus" ... translations are difficult ... after reading the books in the language they were written, the Dutch versions seem contrived ...

Re-read, 01/2021: The Rosy Crucifixion remains among my favorite of Miller’s work. A retelling of his formative years, when he basically quit normal life, set out to become a writer, and did so despite all the misery his withdrawal from the workaday world caused him, these three books are Miller at his best. Nexus, in which he finally says goodbye to America, might be my favorite volume of the three.


as with each book in "the rosy crucifixion," and pretty much all of henry miller's work, this book is fantastic, well worth reading, and henry miller still pretty much owns your face.

Masterpiece. Simply stunning. Miller is now my favourite author of all time.


We’re all dreamers, only some of us wake up in time to put down a few words. Certainly I want to write. But I don’t think it’s the end-all and be-all. How shall I put it? Writing is like the caca that you make in your sleep. Delicious caca, to be sure, but first comes life, then the caca. Life is change, movement, quest …… going forward to meet the unknown, the unexpected. Only a very few men can say of themselves - “I have lived!”. That’s why we have books - so that we may live vicariously.

وانتهت رحلتى مع "ثلاثية الصلب الوردى" بنهاية نكسوس اخر اجزائها وان كنت تشعر اثناء القراءة بانها تمثل الجزء الثانى لا الثالث لانها بدات من خاتمة الجزء الاول ..

خضنا مع ميللر رحلته وصراعاته وشهواته واستمتعنا برؤيته للمجتمع الامريكى والحياة الماجنة التى يغرق فيها افراده تقشفه وحربه ضد الحياة الالية اصراره على الكتابة والتاليف ايمان زوجته واصدقائه به انها ليست مجرد سيرة ذاتية فى صورة روائية بل هى حياة كاملة لمجتمع لايحترم الا الاقوياء ولايؤمن الا بالتنافسية..

لو كان ميللر عربيا لعاش حياته طريدا شريدا فى الدول الاوروبية هربا من شرطة الافكار ومحاكم التفتيش الدينية والاخلاقية ولقد عانى من بعضهم فى وطنه لكن النظام بالطبع لم يسمح لهم بالتمادى ولربما نال سكينا فى رقبته هو الاخر فى نهاية رحلته العمرية والفكرية لكن القدر كان به رحيما ..

لقد اكتسبت كاتبا جديدا هذا العام لن امل من رواياته وساحرص دائما على متابعتها وقرائتها ..

A brilliant read, moving, and awe-inspiring. My favourite passages were not the plot but the dense sections of rambling Miller embark upon. Writing about life, love, literature and anything he felt that day there are some beautiful chapters where nothing appears to happen.

Culminar la trilogía con la sensación de ¿y ahora qué?
Pregunta que lleva a buscar la historia de Miller y continuar con los trópicos.
Mona sigue siendo un personaje que de destaca y genera curiosidad.

Esta es la parte de la historia de Miller en la que aún no ha ido a Europa, pero Mona le mete la idea en la cabeza de hecho se va adelante abandonándolo por un rato (con la otra novia de ella, con la que vivían Astasia) es la historia de cómo logró finalmente ponerse en serio a escribir aunque ni tuviera que decir, como empezó a amar el acto de la lectura y a evaluar la lógica de jugar a Dios al escribir una novela. Hay una novela que escribe él, y que Mona inventa que es de ella para recibir la financiación de uno de aquellos... ahí Miller comienza a vivir la disciplina de la máquina de escribir. Es lindo que en este relato el no se pinta como mal ser humano, tiene un amigo judío que es su amigo y son unidos. Es quién es claro, pero no sé pinta peor de lo que es. Me encantó.

The best of the three in the Rosy Crucifixion series, after an interminable 100 pages or so of hemming and hawing abut how he was coping with his domestic situation (his wife was more in love with her girlfriend than with him) the book really gets rolling; some of Miller's best flights of fancy ever. He actually starts his life as a writer, and you get some feeling of forward motion.

Wasn't my favorite of the 3. I have to say, the second book of the Rosy Cruxifiction was for me the best. I still don't get Miller completely - at times he's awful and other times he's just genius. I know this is how he writes - everything thrown in together and the button 'crazy spin' hit, and it has its own appeal but one thing I know it definitely is - demanding and exhausting!

The third book in The Rosy Crucixion series. Rambling.