Darkness Moves : An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984

by Michaux, Henri; Ball, David

• ISBN13: 9780520072312
• ISBN10: 0520072316
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• 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
Introduction
Some Information about Fifty-Nine Years of Existence
Translator's Note
Who I Was	p. 3
My Properties	p. 5
The Night Moves	p. 21
Plume, preceded by Far-Off Inside	p. 43
Ordeals, Exorcisms	p. 81
Trying to Wake Up	p. 95
Elsewhere	p. 101
Life in the Folds	p. 141
Facing the Locks	p. 161
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