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Miserable Miracle: Mescaline by Henri Michaux (English) Paperback Book

Description: Miserable Miracle by Henri Michaux 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "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. Author Biography Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was born in Namur, Belgium, the son of a lawyer. After contemplating careers in the church and in medicine, Michaux enlisted in the French merchant marine and traveled around the world. These travels inspired his first two books, Ecuador and A Barbarian in Asia. After settling in Paris, Michaux devoted himself to writing and painting and was soon known all around France-and eventually the world-for his work in both disciplines.Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City, and his extraordinarily busy and fruitful life took him from civil-war Spain to surrealist Paris, from US universities to the Mexican embassy in New Delhi, where he served for six years as ambassador before resigning in protest after his governments suppression of student demonstrations at the 1968 Olympic Games. A great poet, Paz was also the author of many essays and a study of Mexican identity,The Labyrinth of Solitude, as well as the founder and editor of two important journals,PluralandVuelta. Octavio Paz received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.Louise Var se (1891-1989) was an American writer and translator. In 1969 she was designated a Chevalier de LOrdre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France in recognition of her translations of Baudelaire, Sartre, Proust, Michaux, and Bernanos, among other writers. She and her husband, the composer Edgard Var se, were close friends of Georges Simenon during his years in the United States, and she translated some fifteen of his novels. Details ISBN1590170016 Author Henri Michaux Short Title MISERABLE MIRACLE Series New York Review Books Classics Language English Translator Louise Varese ISBN-10 1590170016 ISBN-13 9781590170014 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2002 Publication Date 2002-04-30 Place of Publication New York Translated from French Birth 1899 Death 1984 Residence US Imprint NYRB Classics Subtitle Mescaline Edition Main Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9781590170014 AU Release Date 2002-04-30 NZ Release Date 2002-04-30 US Release Date 2002-04-30 UK Release Date 2002-04-30 Pages 200 Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc Edition Description Main DEWEY 841.912 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145103299;

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Book Title: Miserable Miracle

Item Height: 203mm

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Author: Henri Michaux

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Language: English

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Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc

Publication Year: 2002

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Item Weight: 219g

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