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Misérable miracle

Henri Michaux

195689 pagesabout 1–2 hours
1956
first published
  • 1963City Lights Books · 89 pages · ENG
  • 1991French & European Pubns · ENGISBN 9780785933816
  • 1987GallimardISBN 9782070709793

"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.-- Publisher description.

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