Michaux did not likeīeing photographed, but Brassaï's portrait of him in 1945 shows him Impressed with Michaux's poetry, "the powerful and solemn voice of aĭriven man, ill at ease with himself," as he said. With whom he had long discussions about literature. When his poems appeared in 1926 in the magazine Nouvelle Revueįrançoise, one reader complained that they were not literature.Īmong Michaux's friends was the photographer Gilberte Brassaï, Writings in avant-garde reviews, such as Commerce and Bifur. Long live supernatural!"Įncouraged by Jean Paulhan and Jules Superville, he published his Predictable," he famously said, "but given the choice between supernatural andĪnything else, I would have no hesitation. He was interested in the works of Paul Klee, Max Ernst, GiorgioĬhirico, and Salvador Dali.
Michaux supported himself by workingĪs a teacher and secretary.
In 1923 Michaux began to contribute to Franz Hellens's Reading Comte de Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror (1868-69) awakened in Michaux the long-forgotten need to write. To Africa, India and China – basically he traveled to reject the wordĪnd identity imposed on him from the outside. Rebelling against his parents wishes, heĭropped his studies and traveled in North and South America as a ship's Lives of Saints, and many eccentric and extravagant authors, MichauxĪt Brussels University. Intended to join the priesthood but was dissuaded from this by hisĪ religious crisis, during which he read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, the Withdrawn." ('Some information aboutįifty-nine years of existence,' in Darkness Moves, 1994) He Was educated at Putte-Grasheide and at a Jesuit school inīrussels. "I Was Born Full of Holes," he said in Ecuador (1929). Michaux Henri Michaux was born in Namur, the son of a catholic lawyer. Like their voices, their attacking allureīreathed audacity. Thinkable whereto I was called, successivelyįorcing in me levels of ignorance, exalted me in Sounds, demons, dragons, snakes, camels and otherĪnimals – refer to the unconscious or outside world.
Open, whether his images – steel prisons, labyrinths, slashing Often Michaux narrated his suggestive prose poems in the first personĪnd warned and advised the reader. Henri Michaux's workīut he never joined the movement, and his writings avoid all Through dreams, fantasies, and drug-induced experiments. Journalist, and poet, who explored the inner self and human suffering A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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