Sexus (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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Sexus (1949), the first volume, describes the break-up of Miller's first marriage to Maude as he meets, falls in love with and marries his second wife, the captivating and mysterious dancer Mona (June). All the while, he feels guilty for leaving Maude, and becomes more attracted to her following their divorce. At the beginning of Sexus, Miller is 33 years old. June is at first called Mara, but at the beginning of chapter 8, and for the remainder of the trilogy, her name is changed to Mona. Miller states that this is under the influence of his friend Dr. Kronski, and that the name change accompanied "other, more significant changes." She is one who has changed many details of her life: "her name, her birthplace, her mother, her upbringing, her friends, her tastes, even her desires." [2] In 2018 Trevor White in the TV series The Durrells in Corfu season 3, episodes 3 and 7, as recurring role. a b Arthur Hoyle, "Remember Henry Miller? Censored Then, Forgotten Now," Huffington Post, May 14, 2014. Miller had in mind to write a second volume of Nexus, and made several attempts to complete it. It would have covered his time in France with Mona, their return to New York, and his return to Paris on his own, concluding with him writing the opening lines of Tropic of Cancer at 18 Villa Seurat. He made several attempts to write the book before ultimately abandoning the undertaking. [8] [9] A rough draft of the abandoned novel, Paris 1928 (Nexus II), an account of his 1928 trip to Paris with Mona, was first published in English in 2012. [10] Publication [ edit ] In Mara (2015), a short film by Mike Figgis, a dramatization of Mara-Marignan from Quiet Days in Clichy he was portrayed by Scott Glenn, while Mara by Juliette Binoche. The 20 minute film was originally shot and broadcast as part of HBO's anthology film Women & Men 2 (1991).

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Arthur Hoyle, The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur, New York: Arcade Publishing, 2014, pp. 246, 253. Durrell, Lawrence, editor. The Henry Miller Reader, New York: New Directions Publishing, 1959. ISBN 0-8112-0111-2 Rejaunier, Jeanne. My Sundays With Henry Miller: A Memoir, Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2013. ISBN 978-1492195726Guide to the Henry Miller Letters to E.E. Schmidt and Other Material. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Gertz, Elmer; Felice Flanery Lewis, eds. (1978). Henry Miller: Years of Trial & Triumph, 1962–1964: The Correspondence of Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-0860-6.

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Henry Miller: Prophet der Lüste ( Henry Miller: Prophet of Desire), a biographical documentary TV movie in 2017 by a German director Gero von Boehm, which also features Erica Jong, Brassaï, and Anaïs Nin. 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 leitmotif for some of Miller's finest writing, embodying everything he felt about self-liberation and the true life of the spirit. a b "About the Henry Miller Library". Archived from the original on September 27, 2011 . Retrieved September 29, 2011. Nin, Anaïs. Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, Orlando: Harcourt Brace, 1986. ISBN 978-0-15-140003-4

In other works written during his time in California, Miller was widely critical of consumerism in America, as reflected in Sunday After the War (1944) and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945). His Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, published in 1957, is a collection of stories about his life and friends in Big Sur. [46] Miller (1959)