An edition of Darkness moves (1994)

Darkness moves

an Henri Michaux anthology, 1927-1984

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An edition of Darkness moves (1994)

Darkness moves

an Henri Michaux anthology, 1927-1984

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Henri Michaux is one of the great visionary European artists of the twentieth century. Before he died in 1984, his writings had been translated from the French into more than half a dozen languages and his paintings displayed at the major art museums of Europe and the United States. He has been compared to Kafka, Swift, Beckett, Klee, and Goya, yet his work defies easy categorization.

Darkness Moves is the first English-language anthology to present the full range of Michaux's talent, including many works that were previously unavailable in English. Here are selections from nearly all of the artist's major writings: his hallucinatory visions, fantastic journeys, fables, portraits of strange people's, the weirdly comic "Plume" narratives, his "exorcism-poems," and the meditative ecstatic poetry nourished by the religions of Asia.

Also represented are his extremely original essays on art, literature, and life. Thirty reproductions of Michaux's paintings give a sample of his visual work, which is as singular and adventurous as his poetry.

  1. David Ball, himself a poet, brings a great sensitivity to his renderings of Michaux's remarkable French, and his introductions offer a valuable guide to the work presented. Now, for the first time, the English reader can fully explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscapes of this twentieth-century visionary.
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English
Pages
342

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Cover of: Darkness Moves
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
October 31, 1997, University of California Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Darkness moves
Darkness moves: an Henri Michaux anthology, 1927-1984
1994, University of California Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Berkeley

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
082
Library of Congress
PQ2625.I2 A222 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiv, 342 p. :
Number of pages
342

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1710989M
ISBN 10
0520072316
LCCN
92012925
OCLC/WorldCat
25706809
Library Thing
12048
Goodreads
1162997

First Sentence

"The title of his first book of poems notwithstanding, Henri Michaux is fully Henri Michaux in these two little collections."

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