by Henri Michaux · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070706228
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«Un barbare en Asie» is Henri Michaux's travel account, published by Gallimard in paperback (232 pages, in French).
Account of the journey Henri Michaux made through India, China, Malaysia, Japan and Indonesia in the early 1930s. Far from conventional tourism, the author observes landscapes, customs and above all the spirituality and culture of Asian peoples, with a concrete and poetic prose that combines the route notebook with personal reflection.
Written between 1930 and 1931, this volume in Gallimard's L'Imaginaire collection was published in 1986.
A work of interest for readers of travel literature and essays, and for those wishing to discover Henri Michaux's view of Asia.
Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned 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 shows of his work in 1978. His autobiographical texts that chronicle his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones. He is recognised for his idiosyncratic travelogues and books of art criticism. Michaux is also known for his stories about Plume – "a peaceable man" – one of the most unenterprising heroes in literature, a character subject to many misfortunes.
