A Barbarian in Asia - Softcover

Michaux, Henri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811222136 ISBN 13: 9780811222136

Publisher: New Directions, 2016

Synopsis

A wild journey to the East narrated by a writer who is “without equal in the literature of our time” (Jorge Luis Borges)

Henri Michaux (1899–1984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. Traveling from India to the Himalayas, and on to China and Japan, Michaux voices his vivid impressions, cutting opinions, and curious insights: he has no trouble speaking his mind. Part fanciful travelogue and part exploration of culture, A Barbarian in Asia is presented here in its original translation by Sylvia Beach, the famous American-born bookseller in Paris.

About this title

About the Author:

Henri Michaux (1899–1984), born in Belgium, studied mysticism as a young man and traveled throughout South America and Asia before settling in Paris. He wrote more than twenty volumes of poetry and prose and showed paintings he created under the influence of mescaline. In 1965 he was awarded the French National Prize for Letters but refused the award, saying that it threatened his independence.

Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Co., Sylvia Beach was a luminary in the Parisian literary scene and the first publisher of Ulysses by James Joyce.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0811222136
• ISBN 13: 9780811222136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198