The essay is centred on the third chapter of Henry Miller's Nexus. It is focused on the analyses of the ' descent to hell' of the protagonist, which he lives in utter solitude, because of the misterious and unbearable absence of his beloved. It is the beginning of a sort of pitiless analysis of the reasons of that absence and of the meaning of his own life. He goes through of the phases of dispair. He gropes in the dark, in the cruel mind-machine. He searches for a sort of 'rebirth' in freedom, in love, in the contact with creatures who live in dispair without any expectations.
