Darkness Moves by Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux genius, and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux's work is without equal in the literature of our time. This anthology contains substantial selections from almost all of Michaux's major works, most never before published in English, and allows readers to explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of a twentieth-century visionary.Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was a significant traveler in modern French poetry, not only to the Amazon and the Far East, but also into the weird hinterland of his own inner space, which he has never stopped exploring as a foreign nation in and of itself, and a language to be mastered. He has delved into the realm of mescaline and other substances, fueled by the same explorer's appetite, and his wartime poetry, which was part of a private resistance movement of incredible density and energy, has proclaimed his idea of the poetic act as a type of exorcism. He was one of the most forceful and unsettling of modern French artists due to his voracious desire for new artistic manifestations of himself. If he had any close friends, they are Klee and Pollock, but he was also influenced by Oriental graphic arts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520212299 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520212290 |
| Title | Darkness Moves |
| Author | Henri Michaux |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1997-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 270 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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