"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: | 9781590170014 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2002 |
| Author: | Henri Michaux, Louise Varèse |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 179 pages |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
| Genres: |
Memoirs Biography: writers Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice |