Plexus by henry miller - Ease Reading

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April 26,2025

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.

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Banje

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April 26,2025

A remarkably subdued (only by Miller standards) installment in the infamous trilogy. There's no need to sell the virtues of this book - if you've read the first book you already love the author and what he writes about.

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rallou-m

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April 26,2025

If I would not have known that I picked up a book of a famous writer I would have thought that I was reading exercises of a person who is practicing a freewriting.

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willBeTheKing

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April 26,2025

Quando la precarietà ti spezza non si può che leggere Miller, che della vita precaria ne fa un miracolo.

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Shadostepz

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April 26,2025

ومازلنا مع ملحمة ميللر الثلاثية وصلبه الوردى نتابع معاناته واحلامه كى يصبح كاتبا كبيرا استقالته اخيرا من وظيفته وحياته الالية فهنيئا لك ياميللر لقد فعلتها واصبحت حرا معاناته مع زوجته مونا لتدبير نفقات المعيشة وكتاباته الاولى التى يحاول بها كسب قوت يومه احلامه الغريبة والتى يتذكرها بدقة رهيبة عن دراجته ومنزله واصدقائه رؤيته لفان جوخ الذى عانى من الصعوبات فى حياته وموته فقيرا ارائه عن ديستوفيسكى وانحدار الغرب لشبلنغر ..

بعد ميللر فى هذا الجزء تماما عن البورنوغرافيا فاصبحت بيلكسوس اشبه بكتاب عن الدين مقارنة بسكسوس وذلك جعلها افضل منها واجمل .. كالعادة السرد الطويل يحكم اسلوب ميللر حتى فى روايته لاحلامه الغريبة والخروج من قصة الى اخرى والاستطراد المبالغ فيه ..

سنجد معاناة ميللر الكبرى فى هذا الجزء حتى انه اضطر الى ان ياكل الطعام الفاسد الذى سيتم التخلص منه من المحلات والمطاعم ادارته لحانة تقصيره فى دفع نفقة ابنته التى لم يستطع سوى رؤيتها من بعيد وبكائه كثيرا خوفا من عدم معرفتها اياه او تحريض امها ضده ..

ان هذه المعاناة الكبرى التى واجهها ميللر فى حياته مثلت صلبه الوردى ان تجرح وتنزف حتى اخر قطرة من دمائك لتزهر بعدها وردة ربما تحمل لك الامل فالى نيكسوس اخر جزء فى تلك الملحمة ..

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ThatRandomDude

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April 26,2025

More garbage

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Cainthazar

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April 26,2025

Henry Miller's work is a great literary achievement. Plexus is another testament to a life committed to what one can naively call "truth". But a truth which somehow distinguishes itself from that of the academic and man of logic and science, which is not to discredit the academic and the man of logic! Yet nonetheless what Miller has in mind is much more of this world in its everydayness. Henry Miller seems to constantly demonstrate some fabulous cosmic marvels of being human which can seldom be found in the best works of theory, and perhaps that is the greatest proof of his own untheoretical notions of life, art, ethics, writing, the work, knowledge, esotericism, love, imagination. 'Hen' always inspires one to awaken from that dreary urban life to which it is so easy to accustom oneself. Nietzsche writes "... we whose task is wakefulness itself..." and Hen lives precisely according to this dictum. To always be awake to the world, to search endlessly for the gold of life, in its turmoil, in its suffering, without simple moral prejudices, yet to love and be committed. The words "authentic existence" do Henry Miller no justice, it is hard to articulate what it is about Henry which makes him endearing, his total honesty? His imagination, his erudition? His sensitivity? Henry is human through and through in the best of ways - he belongs to those great people of history that don't move the wheels of History, who aren't decisive, but that attain some great spiritual eternal truth - and he bestows in his language. To spend time with Henry is to be moved, to be transformed, to want to live newly and see the world newly.

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