Miserable Miracle: Mescaline

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ISBN-10: 1590170016
ISBN-13: 9781590170014
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publish Date: 04/30/2002
Dimensions: 7.92" L, 5.00" W, 0.51" H

Miserable Miracle: Mescaline

byHenri Michaux
Introduction by: Octavio Paz
Translator: Louise Varèse

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Price: $17.95

Overview

“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. 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.

  • Henri Michaux (1899–1984) was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian-born poet, writer, and painter who wrote in French. He later took French citizenship. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism. Michaux travelled widely, tried his hand at several careers, and experimented with drugs, the latter resulting in two of his most intriguing works, Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones.
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Details

ISBN-10: 1590170016
ISBN-13: 9781590170014
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publish Date: 04/30/2002
Dimensions: 7.92" L, 5.00" W, 0.51" H
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