Henry Miller is a prominent representative of the experimental direction 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. Scandalous fame brought him the “Paris trilogy” “Tropic of Cancer”, “Black Spring”, “Tropic of Capricorn”; these books went to the general reader for decades, overcoming court injunctions and censorship slingshots. The next large-scale composition of Miller was the trilogy “Crucifixion of the Rose” (“Rose of the Crucifixion”), started by the novel “Sexus” and continued by “Plexus” Yes, before these books were shocking, but now that the scandal has long since subsided, there remains the power of the word, the power of genuine feeling, the power of insight, the power of enormous talent. In the novel, Miller talks about his travels in America, about how, leaving work in a telegraph company, he tried to turn to creativity; he reflects on art, analyzes Dostoevsky, Spengler and other prominent thinkers.