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Embraced by the Surrealists as one of their own, Chazal chose to avoid all literary factions and steadfastly anchored himself in his solitary life as a bachelor mystic on the island nation of Mauritius, where he would proceed to write books and paint for the rest of his life.  Sens-Plastique employs a strange humor and an alchemical sensibility to offer up an utterly original world vision that unifies neo-science, philosophy and poetry into a new form of writing. Mapping every human body part, facial expression and emotion onto the natural kingdom through subconscious thinking, Chazal presents a world in which humankind is not just made in the image of God, but Nature is made in the image of humankind: a sensual, synesthetic world in which everything in the universe, be it animal, vegetable, mineral or human, employs a spiritual copula.  Malcolm de Chazal (1902–81) was a Mauritian writer and painter. Forsaking a career in the sugar industry, he spent the majority of his life in a solitary, mystical pursuit of the continuity between man and nature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49557779808529,"sku":"GOR013758631","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50299387871505,"sku":"NGR9781939663689","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50424883118353,"sku":"CIN1939663687G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057615044881,"sku":"NIN9781939663689","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141152960785,"sku":"NLS9781939663689","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1939663687.jpg?v=1750727708"},{"product_id":"rose-humour-book-malcolm-de-chazal-9781739794606","title":"Rose Humour","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51048635367697,"sku":"NIN9781739794606","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521330569489,"sku":"NLS9781739794606","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1739794605.jpg?v=1750864979"},{"product_id":"magical-science-book-malcolm-de-chazal-9780957125872","title":"Magical Science","description":"Malcolm de Chazal is looking at the universe, space-time and spirituality and arriving at a unique manner by which to consider existence. Everything is part of the whole and everything exists in a fundamental state which is beyond mere consciousness. In this, the sequel to Magical Sense, de Chazal has cast his vision wider: he coaxes us to consider the great quandaries, but in order for us to do this he provides us with definitions and insights to equip us with the necessary tools to be able to analyse those big questions in the first instance. In addition to these considerations de Chazal as always sees things that we don't all see, and is able to put across his visions and wisdoms in an often surrealistic and amusing manner. Spirituality, insight and humour - Malcolm de Chazal was an original artist, thinker and writer. 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Mais son histoire ne s'arr te pas l .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSa relation avec le mouvement surr aliste et son  sot risme jouent  galement un r le. Il s'est m me impos  une existence recluse et m ditationnelle qui lui a permis de voir et d'exp rimenter la r alit  diff remment, telle qu'elle est r ellement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ainsi, de son propre aveu, cette exp rience l'a guid  vers une approche compl tement unique dans sa fa on d' crire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChacune de ces diff rentes facettes nous aide   mieux comprendre l'homme derri re son art et son  criture. Mais c'est sans doute son histoire familiale intrigante et ses liens avec l'alchimie qui nous en donne une vision plus pr cise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalcolm de Chazal est n  en 1902   l' le Maurice. Il  tait le treizi me et dernier enfant. Sa famille  tait issue d'une longue lign e d'aristocrate fran ais qui poss dait des terres en Auvergne et dans le Loiret. Son anc tre le Comte Fran ois de Chazal de la Genest  s' tait install  sur l' le Maurice en 1763, pendant le si cle des Lumi res. Fran ois  tait un Rose-Croix qui, dit-on, fabriquait de l'or alchimique   volont  et, gr ce   ses dons de voyance, avait pr dit tous les  v nements qui devaient se d rouler pendant la R volution fran aise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDans une lettre du pasteur Ren  Agnel   Andr  Breton en 1949, Malcolm de Chazal est d crit comme un «po te, explorateur en cosmologie et en ethnologie, expert en  sot risme, h t rodoxe, th ologien et militant ind pendant qui le restera jusqu'  son dernier souffle. Un individu tourment  par la qu te d'une spiritualit  v ritablement lib r e et purifi e,   l'instar de Rimbaud, «l'homme aux semelles de vent    la recherche de la vie transform e...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalcolm de Chazal et Andr  Breton partageaient une amiti  de longue date; en effet, celui-ci figurait sur la liste des surr alistes de Breton. Il  tait  galement tr s appr ci  de Georges Braque qui le premier lui sugg ra de se lancer dans la peinture, ainsi que de Jean Dubuffet, fondateur de l'\u003cem\u003eArt Brut\u003c\/em\u003e. Malgr  toutes ces recommandations, de Chazal ne souhaitait cependant pas  tre qualifi  uniquement de surr aliste... \u003cstrong\u003e(Jean Bonnin)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53493980201233,"sku":"NIN9781999821531","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521524818193,"sku":"NLS9781999821531","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781999821531.jpg?v=1777814024"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-malcolm-de-chazal.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}