Darkness Moves

by Michaux, Henri

• ISBN13: 9780520212299
• ISBN10: 0520212290
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Introduction	ix	(15)
Some Information about Fifty-Nine Years of Existence	xxiv	(8)
Translator's Note	xxxii
1927-1929	3	(192)
Who I Was	3	(2)
My Properties	5	(16)
The Night Moves	21	(22)
Plume, preceded by Far-Off Inside	43	(38)
Ordeals, Exorcisms	81	(14)
Trying to Wake Up	95	(6)
Elsewhere	101	(40)
Life in the Folds	141	(20)
Facing the Locks	161	(34)
EXPLORING HALLUCINOGENS	195
Miserable Miracle	195	(14)
Turbulent Infinity	209	(2)
Knowledge through the Abyss	211	(6)
The Great Ordeals of the Mind (and the Countless Small Ones)	217	(8)
Ways of Sleepers, Ways of Wakers	225	(6)
Moments: Crossings of Time	231	(10)
Facing the Vanishing World	241	(14)
Paths Looked For, Paths Lost, Transgressions	255	(36)
Displacements, Disengagements	291	(16)
Passages	307