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3 unusual facts about Henri Michaux


Emrah Altinok

These inscriptions that look like drawing and handwriting evoked some works of Roland Barthes and Henri Michaux.

George Braziller

I remember you’d go to the corner café, and there were artists like Max Ernst, Giacometti, Calder, and then the writers, poets, playwrights, dramatists like Camus, Michaux, Ionesco, Dürrenmatt....

Gillian Conoley

Conoley is currently translating some work of the French poet Henri Michaux, works which have yet to be brought forth into English.


Blanca Varela

In 1949 they travelled to Paris where she met Octavio Paz, a key figure in her life, who introduced her to the artists and intellectuals there, such as André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Henri Michaux, Alberto Giacometti and Fernand Léger, among others; and also other Latin American authors who lived in France at that time, for example Carlos Martínez Rivas.


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