The Rosy Crucifixion, consisting of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, documents the period of Henry Miller's life from his first divorce in 1928 to his departure for France in 1930.
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Book One, Seruggle to become a writer—a struggle his friends barely understood.
Miller uses licentious sex scenes to set the stage for his philosophical discussions of self, love, marriage and happiness.[1]
Plexus (1953) is the second book in Henry Miller's fictionalized account of his early life with his second wife, Mona. Plexus describes Miller's struggles to find himself as a writer; shares with the reader many of his strange and symbolic dreams; explores Miller's various relationships with many of his friends, for example Ulric, O'Mara, and Karen; details many of Miller's intellectual passions, amidst the framework of his relationship to "Mona", a character based on his second wife, June.
Nexus is the third and final book in the trilogy, published in 1960. It documents Miller's troubles with his second wife Mona (who was really June) and her lover, Anastasia (a fictional character for Jean Kronski), and the period before his departure to Paris, France.