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'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.

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      Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
      Publication Date: 30/04/2002
      ISBN13: 9781590170014, 978-1590170014
      ISBN10: 1590170016
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      Autobiography: general Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      '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.

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