Selected Writings Michaux Henri Michaux

Name: Selected Writings Michaux By Henri Michaux
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Selected Writings Michaux by Henri Michaux

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A collection from one of the great figures in modern French poetry.

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Selected Writings Michaux by Henri Michaux

This selection is from L'Espace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems, sketches and free verse. Brilliantly translated by Richard Ellmann, Michaux asks readers to join him in a fantastic world of the imagination. It is a world where wry humor plays against horror--where Chaplin meets Kafka--a world of pure and rare invention.

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Michaux excels in making us feel... the strangeness of natural things and the naturalness of strange things. -- Andre Gide

About Henri Michaux

Henri Michaux (1899-1984), born in Belgium, studied mysticism as a young man and traveled throughout South America and Asia before settling in Paris. He wrote more than twenty volumes of poetry and prose and showed paintings he created under the influence of mescaline. In 1965 he was awarded the French National Prize for Letters but refused the award, saying that it threatened his independence. Richard Ellmann was Goldsmiths' Professor at Oxford University and Woodruff Professor at Emory University. He achieved world fame for his biography of Joyce and wrote many scholarly and critical works, including two on Yeats.

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GOR005954202

ISBN 13

9780811201056

ISBN 10

0811201058

Title

Selected Writings Michaux by Henri Michaux

Author

Henri Michaux

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year published

1990-08-22

Number of pages

297

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