Despite numerous love affairs, Gustav Klimt had a special relationship throughout his life with Emila Flege, the daughter of a wealthy Viennese industrialist. She was first his student, then a portrait model (on the front page), and later the owner of a successful fashion house. Emili Flege's creations are immortalized in Klimt's provocative paintings.
Henry Miller's "Sexus" is part of the "Pink Crucifixion" trilogy, in which, with less intensity than in his most famous works published in the 1930s in Paris, his rebellion against the arrogant and hypocritical America is sublimated.
The story follows Laura Townsend, a young woman whose life changes drastically after an accident that left lasting effects on her ability to speak and express herself.