Miserable miracle
Subtitle: mescaline
By: Henri Michaux ; translated from the French by Louise Varèse ; introduction by Octavio Paz
Contributors: Varèse, Louise, 1890-1989
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Mescaline
Work titles: Misérable miracle.
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.-- Publisher description.