Miserable Miracle (New York Review Books Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (834 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590170016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Trystero said "Mescaline, the subject explored". (I was quite surprised to find that no one had taken the time to review this little gem of a book here on Amazon. Given the history behind it, especially. I'll briefly try to sum up "Miserable Miracle" here, with due apologies to the complexity of Michaux's work.)It was in the mid-1950's that Henri Michaux, one of the most radical artists of the twentieth century, began experimenting with mescaline. "Miserable Miracle" is the result of his first experiences with the drug, inclu
At once lacerating and weirdly funny, challenging and Chaplinesque, his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable.Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.. "This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug
About the Author HENRI MICHAUX (1899–1984) was born in Namur, Belgium, the son of a lawyer, and educated at a Jesuit school in Brussels. . He contemplated entering the priesthood, turned to the study of medicine, then left school entirely, enlisting instead as a stoker in the French merchant marine. In 1948 Michaux’s wife died after accidentally setting her nightgown on fire; devastated, Michaux devoted himself increasingly to his distinctive calligraphic drawings in ink. Settling in Paris, Michaux began to write and paint, and his work, especially his prose poems recounting the strange and very funny misadventures of the character he called Monsieur Plume, drew the attention and praise of other writers, among them Andr&eacut
He also began to take mescaline at regular intervals, recording his deeply disorienting, often traumatic experiences in a series of unflinching texts beginning with Miserable Miracle. In 1948 Michaux’s wife died after accidentally setting her nightgown on fire; devastated, Michaux devoted himself increasingly to his distinctive calligraphic drawings in ink. HENRI MICHAUX (1899–1984) was born