by Henry Miller · Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432220050
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«Sexus» is the novel by American writer Henry Miller, published by Seix Barral in paperback (407 pages, in Spanish).
It narrates in the first person how the protagonist's life takes a turn when he meets a young dancer, with whom he lives an intense and devastating relationship for seven years. It mixes poetic prose, unprejudiced sincerity, humor and social reflection, with explicit sexual scenes that earned it censorship.
Sexus is the first installment of the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion and was originally published in 1949; this 1984 Spanish edition includes the translation by Carlos Manzano.
For adult readers interested in twentieth-century American fiction and in works that defied censorship.
Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York City and Paris, and all of which were banned in the United States until 1961. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism and painted watercolors.
