Henry Miller is the most prominent representative of the experimental trend in American prose of the 20th century, a daring innovator, whose best works were banned for a long time in his homeland, a master of the confessional-autobiographical genre. The "Paris Trilogy" brought him scandalous fame - "Tropic of Cancer", "Black Spring", "Tropic of Capricorn"; These books reached the general reader for decades, overcoming court injunctions and censorship slingshots. Miller's next largest work was the trilogy "Crucifixion of the Rose" ("Rose of the Crucifixion"), begun with the novel "Sexus" and continued by "Plexus". Yes, before these books shocked, but now, when the scandal has long subsided, what remains is the power of words, the power of genuine feeling, the power of insight, the power of enormous talent. In the novel, Miller talks about his travels across America, about how, having left his job at a telegraph company, he tried to turn to creativity; he reflects on art, analyzes Dostoevsky, Spengler and other outstanding thinkers...