num_pages: 200
description: "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.
language: English
title: Miserable Miracle
titlecomplete: Miserable Miracle
genres: Autobiography, France, Philosophy, Psychology, Literature, French Literature, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 281
publisher: NYRB Classics