| Miserable Miracle: Mescaline Contributor(s): Michaux, Henri (Author), Paz, Octavio (Introduction by), Varèse, Louise (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590170016 ISBN-13: 9781590170014 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2002 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Self-help | Substance Abuse & Addictions - Drugs - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2002000743 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5" W x 7.92" (0.54 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |