Henry Miller Sexus review, recensie en informatie autobiografische roman uit 1949 van de Amerikaanse schrijver en deel 1 van de The Rosy Crucifixion trilogie. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Sexus van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Henry Miller die in 1949 verscheen en door de expliciete erotische inhoud een schandaal veroorzaakte. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman ook Sexus en is in verschillende edities verschenen maar op dit moment alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.
Henry Miller Sexus review en recensie
- “There’s nothing like Henry Miller when he gets rolling … The Rosy Crusifixion is his most ambitious work and some of his best writing.” (Norman Mailer)
- “A huge, sprawling narrative of Miller’s life in New York, ‘Sexus’ culminates in a description of an orgy as remarkable for its account of the author’s powers of sexual endurance as for its versatility. Interspersed are descriptions of his friends, some of them extremely funny and all of them lively. The lack of inhibition and genteel or moral restraint with which Miller describes these various characters gives ‘Sexus’ a unique vitality. Miler cannot be pompous, a rare virtue, and his honesty is absolute.” (Spectator)
Sexus
The Rosy Crusifixion 1
- Auteur: Henry Miller (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1949
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Omvang: 512 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9,99 /
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de autobiografische erotische roman van Henry Miller
Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller’s major life work.
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 Crucifixion trilogy, 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.
Henry Miller was born 29 December 1891 in New York City. He is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. He is widely recognised as an irreverent, risk-taking writer who redefined the novel and made the link between the European avant-garde and the American Beat generation. At the age of 88 he died on 7 June 1980 in Los Angeles, California.