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Book SynopsisA wild journey to the East narrated by a writer who is “without equal in the literature of our time” (Jorge Luis Borges)Trade Review"Michaux excels in making us feel the strangeness of natural things and the naturalness of strange things." -- André Gide
"Michaux travels via his languages: lines, words, colors, silences, rhythms. And he does not hesitate to break the back of a word, the way a horseman does not hesitate to wind his mount. Language as a vehicle, but also language as a knife and a miner’s lamp." -- Octavio Paz
"It is superb in its swift illuminations and its wit." -- Alfred Kazin - The New Yorker
"Imagine Arthur Rimbaud carrying his peculiar poetic vision with him to Abyssinia and describing the country, natives and customs for us. Or just fancy Lewis Carroll—with whom Henri Michaux also has something in common—reporting a trip to Africa. In either case the result would be somewhat like this original and stimulating refraction of the Orient through a very special personality." -- Justin O’Brien - The New York Times Book Review
