![]() ![]() His whole output is an exercise in perfection, medicine for oneself, a Nietzschean healing pedagogy, that is to say ‘good health’. According to his poetry function, the ‘non-breathable becomes breathable and the unlivable becomes livable’. He, thus, offers an unclassifiable and open-ended poetry, resisting all power abuse of a single interpretation, especially that of the medical world. By an alchemical process, he appropriated and operated a value-transmutation of the scientific and medical languages of the 20th century for his personal use. Literature, Autograph letters & Manuscripts, Antique books (1455-1820), Periodicals, History, French districts. But this did not prevent him from having an accurate perception of other people and of the world, at a distance. His work focusses on the narcissistic self and phenomenological body awareness: ‘Coenesthésie, mare nostrum’, he said. As he put it, his only drug was ‘feeling tired’! By means of ‘pen strokes’, Michaux lay on paper the innumerable aspects of his psycho-somatic suffering, thereby both exorcizing and alchemizing it through the poetic act. However, not heeding medical advice, he did not spare himself for over 80 years. It is a world where wry humor plays against horror-where Chaplin meets Kafka-a world of pure and rare invention. Michaux asks readers to join him in a fantastic world of the imagination. Yet, due to his weak heart, he suffered from ill-health all his life. New Directions, Literary Collections - 297 pages. Henri Michaux clearly stated that he painted and wrote ‘for his good health’. ![]()
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