A Barbarian in Asia

Author(s): Henri Michaux

Travel Literature

Henri Michaux (1899-1984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. Traveling from India to the Himalayas, and on to China and Japan, Michaux voices his vivid impressions, cutting opinions, and curious insights: he has no trouble speaking his mind. Part fanciful travelogue and part exploration of culture, A Barbarian in Asia is presented here in its original translation by Sylvia Beach, the famous American-born bookseller in Paris.

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"Michaux excels in making us feel the strangeness of natural things and the naturalness of strange things." -- Andre Gide "Michaux travels via his languages: lines, words, colors, silences, rhythms. And he does not hesitate to break the back of a word, the way a horseman does not hesitate to wind his mount. Language as a vehicle, but also language as a knife and a miner's lamp." -- Octavio Paz "It is superb in its swift illuminations and its wit." -- Alfred Kazin - The New Yorker "Imagine Arthur Rimbaud carrying his peculiar poetic vision with him to Abyssinia and describing the country, natives and customs for us. Or just fancy Lewis Carroll-with whom Henri Michaux also has something in common-reporting a trip to Africa. In either case the result would be somewhat like this original and stimulating refraction of the Orient through a very special personality." -- Justin O'Brien - The New York Times Book Review

General Fields

  • : 9780811222136
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • : April 2016
  • : 203mm X 127mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 198
  • : Paperback
  • : Henri Michaux