modern europe
Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had shows of his work in 1978. His autobiographical texts that chronicle his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones. He is recognised for his idiosyncratic travelogues and books of art criticism. Michaux is also known for his stories about Plume – "a peaceable man" – one of the most unenterprising heroes in literature, a character subject to many misfortunes.Wikipedia →
Works
Un barbare en Asie
A Barbarian in Asia
French · 1933Biography / Memoir / Reportage
1 translation
L'Espace du dedans
The Selected Writings of Henri Michaux: The Space Within
French · 1944Short Story Collection / Tales
1 translation
Misérable Miracle (La mescaline)
Miserable Miracle
French · 1956Biography / Memoir / Reportage
1 translation
Idéogrammes en Chine
Ideograms in China
French · 1975Epic / Long-form / Standalone Poem
1 translation
Saisir (Grasp)
Stroke by Stroke
French · 1979Novella / Light Novel
1 translation