19 October 1984(1984-10-19) (aged 85) Paris, France
Occupation
Poet, journalist and painter
Citizenship
Belgian, French (from 1955)
Genre
Surrealism, asemic writing
Notable works
My Properties (1929); Plume (1938); Miserable Miracle: Mescaline (1956).
Henri Michaux (French:[ɑ̃ʁimiʃo]; 24 May 1899, Namur – 19 October 1984, Paris) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned[1] for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had major shows of his work in 1978 (see below, Visual Arts). His texts chronicling his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline, which include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones,[2] are well known. So are his idiosyncratic travelogues and books of art criticism. Michaux is also known for his stories about Plume – "a peaceful man" – perhaps the most unenterprising hero in the history of literature, and his many misfortunes. His poetic works have often been republished in France, where they are studied along with the great poets of French literature. In 1955 he became a citizen of France,[3] and he lived the rest of his life there. He became a friend of Romanian pessimist philosopher Emil Cioran around the same time, along with other literary luminaries in France. [4] In 1965 he won the grand prix national des Lettres, which he refused to accept, as he did every honor he was accorded in his life.
Japanese animator Ryo Orikasa adapted Michaux's poetry for the 2023 short film Miserable Miracle.[5]
^"His work is without equal in the literature of our time." Jose Luis Borges, Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology 1927-1984, p. ix.
^Paz, Octavio (9 August 2002). "Journeys into the Abyss". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 November 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
^[1] Archived 26 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine "Henri Michaux, French painter and poet". Archived from the original on 26 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
^"Emil Cioran – A Century of Writers (1999) | Türkçe Altyazılı – YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
^Ramin Zahed, "Poetry in Motion: Ryo Orikasa’s ‘Miserable Miracle’ Animates the Musings of Henri Michaux". Animation Magazine, November 7, 2023.
HenriMichaux (French: [ɑ̃ʁi miʃo]; 24 May 1899, Namur – 19 October 1984, Paris) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned...
1960 and 1964, where she translated authors such as Antonin Artaud, HenriMichaux, Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy. She also studied history of religion...
wordless writing with his poem Paris, Mai 1924. Later in the 1920s, HenriMichaux, who was influenced by Asian calligraphy, Surrealism, and Automatic...
written in France into the 20th century by such writers as Max Jacob, HenriMichaux, Gertrude Stein, and Francis Ponge.[citation needed] In 1877–1882 Russian...
traditions Bäckström, Per. Enhet i mångfalden. HenriMichaux och det groteska (Unity in the Plenitude. HenriMichaux and the Grotesque), Lund: Ellerström, 2005...
in 1967. A French artist by the name of HenriMichaux, was considered "a pioneer in psychedelic art". Michaux experimented with LSD while creating his...
novels, notably in the periodical Mercure de France, and befriended HenriMichaux, Pierre Morhange, and Robert Desnos. Around 1922 Cahun and Moore began...
Federico García Lorca Artur Lundkvist Stéphane Mallarmé Harry Martinson HenriMichaux Birger Sjöberg August Stramm Giorgos Seferis Philippe Soupault Jules...
actor (b. 1957) October 19 Jin Yuelin, Chinese philosopher (b. 1895) HenriMichaux, Belgian writer and painter (b. 1899) Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish Roman...
peyote experience in Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumara (1937) and HenriMichaux who wrote Misérable Miracle (1956), to describe his experiments with...
Jean Jouve, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Joseph Breitbach, Pierre Leyris, HenriMichaux, Michel Leiris and René Char, the photographer Man Ray, the playwright...
album by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album is named after HenriMichaux's description of the feeling of using mescaline in Miserable Miracle...
Pierre Jean Jouve. He directed books devoted to Burroughs, Pélieu, HenriMichaux, Ungaretti, Louis Massignon, Lewis Carroll, H. P. Lovecraft, Alexander...
1946, Dubuffet started a series of portraits, with his own friends HenriMichaux, Francis Ponge, George Limbour, Jean Paulhan and Pierre Matisse serving...
(1919–2014) Georges Mathieu (1921–2012) Jean Messagier (1920–1999) HenriMichaux (1899–1984) Jean Miotte (born 1926) Ludwig Merwart (1913–1979) Zoran...
Jeanne Maubourg (1873-1953), opera singer, radio actress in Canada HenriMichaux (1899–1984), French-speaking poet and painter Benoît Poelvoorde (born...
Soupault, Pierre Reverdy, Antonin Artaud (who revolutionized theater), HenriMichaux and René Char. The surrealist movement would continue to be a major...
Lemonnier Suzanne Lilar Maurice Maeterlinck Thierry Martens Pierre Mertens HenriMichaux Amélie Nothomb Jean Ray aka John Flanders for his works in Dutch Georges...
including Mircea Eliade, Eugène Ionesco, Paul Celan, Samuel Beckett, HenriMichaux and Fernando Savater.[citation needed] In 1995, Cioran died of Alzheimer's...
Tzara (1896–1963) André Breton (1896–1966) Louis Aragon (1897–1982) HenriMichaux (1899–1984) Robert Desnos (1900–45) René Char (1907–88) Postmodernism...
scene, such as Patti Smith. Radical French authors, such as Jean Genet, HenriMichaux, René Daumal and Francis Picabia were mixed with Lower East Side writers...
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