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Miserable miracle : mescaline / Henri Michaux ; translated from the French by Louise Varèse ; introduction by Octavio Paz.
Van Pelt Library BF209.M4 M5313 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michaux, Henri, 1899-1984.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Misérable miracle. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mescaline.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- "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.
- ISBN:
- 1590170016
- OCLC:
- 48871690
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