"Nexus", concludes the trilogy that forms with Sexus and Plexus, while offering the background of the Tropics. It focuses mainly on the relationship of its protagonist with Mona, his second wife, and in the circumstances and reflections that lead him to understand that his cultural roots are in Europe and, therefore, only there will be possible to become the writer who He pretends to be. Sex, lived almost as a mystical experience, the search for the minimum resources to survive in a society like New York without renouncing literary creation, and especially literature itself, are the main axes of the novel. Both by the gritty portrayal of the moral environment it offers and by exploring one's own and others' behaviors, "Nexus" has often been dismissed as the best of Miller's novels. Henry Miller (189-1980) is one of the fundamental writers of the renewal of the twentieth-century narrat...read more