Henri Michaux

Luigi Marfe (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Ed. by Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 24 May 1899
Died 18 Oct 1984
Activity 1919-1984

Places

Born in France
Active in France

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Poet

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Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was a Belgian writer and painter. His literary production spans a period of 60 years in which he explored a great variety of literary genres, forms and styles. Michaux wrote poems, short stories, travelogues, descriptions of imaginary places, philosophical disquisitions, essays of art criticism and other prose. Among his masterpieces are works such as

Un certain Plume

[A Certain Plume, 1930],

Un Barbare en Asie

[A Barbarian in Asia, 1933],

LaNuitremue

[The Night Moves, 1935],

L’Infini turbulent

[Infinite Turbulence, 1957]. Common traits of his

œuvre

are linguistic experimentalism, a desire to escape any fixed norm or form, an insistence on a dreamlike imagination and autobiographical exploration.

Michaux was born in Namur in 1899. His father was from the

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Citation: Marfe, Luigi. "Henri Michaux". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 November 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5723, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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