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11%OFFHenri Michaux - Thousand Times Broken - 9780872866485 - V9780872866485
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Thousand Times Broken

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Description for Thousand Times Broken Paperback. Three never-before-translated books from Henri Michaux from the period of his mescaline experimentation, with drawings by the author and Matta. Illustrator(s): Michaux, Henri; Matta, Roberto. Translator(s): Conoley, Gillian. Num Pages: 162 pages, 26 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC7; VXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 418.
Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in ways never seen before, composing a journey in which we----with the great visionary Michaux as our guide----are invited to hover between reading and looking, between the ineffable and the known, between body and spirit into a realm where it is possible to perceive "what one otherwise doesn't perceive, what one hardly suspects at all." Composed between 1956-1959, during Michaux's mescaline experiments, all three books engage a dynamic struggle between the mark and the word as Michaux searches for a medium ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872866485
SKU
V9780872866485
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About Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux: One of the most influential French writers and visual artists of the twentieth century, Belgian-born Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was known for his continual journeys into perception and consciousness. Throughout the almost sixty years of his creative life, Michaux published over thirty books of poems, narratives, essays, travelogues, journals and drawings. His visual work was shown in central ... Read more

Reviews for Thousand Times Broken
"Michaux remains difficult to classify-he wrote verse and prose that is alternately Surrealist, essay-like, fantastical, fabulist, and psychedelic ... [Gillian] Conoley turns Michaux's French into alert, fluid English to match the enface French: it's both a puzzle, and a pleasure, to follow along."-Publishers Weekly "Thousand Times Broken is an inventive and aptly hallucinatory collection of texts and images that offers ... Read more

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