Selected Writings by Henri Michaux5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He achieved world fame for his biography of Joyce and wrote many scholarly and critical works, including two on Yeats. Ellmann, Richard: - Richard Ellmann was Goldsmiths' Professor at Oxford University and Woodruff Professor at Emory University. In 1965 he was awarded the French National Prize for Letters but refused the award, saying that it threatened his independence. He wrote more than twenty volumes of poetry and prose and showed paintings he created under the influence of mescaline. It is a world where wry humor plays against horror-where Chaplin meets Kafka-a world of pure and rare invention.Ĭontributor Bio(s): Michaux, Henri: - Henri Michaux (1899-1984), born in Belgium, studied mysticism as a young man and traveled throughout South America and Asia before settling in Paris. Brilliantly translated by Richard Ellmann, Michaux asks readers to join him in a fantastic world of the imagination. His writings were originally culled into the present form. This selection is from L'Espace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems, sketches and free verse. THE Belgian - born French writer Henri Michaux was admired by such European intellectuals as Gide. Literary Collections | European - General Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Contributor(s): Michaux, Henri (Author), Ellmann, Richard (Translator) ![]()
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