Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian-born French painter, journalist, and poet, who explored the inner self and human suffering through dreams, fantasies, and drug-induced experiments. Michaux's work show his interest in Surrealism, but he never joined the movement, and his writings avoid all classifications. Often Michaux narrated his suggestive prose poems in the first person and warned and advised the reader. However, Michaux leaves the question open, whether his images - steel prisons, labyrinths, slashing sounds, demons, dragons, snakes, camels and other animals - refer to the unconscious or outside world.
The constant widening of the thinkable whereto I was called, successively
forcing in me levels of ignorance, exalted me in a peculiar way. Their talk
like their voices, their attacking allure breathed audacity.
To translate, to pursue, to follow...
(from 'Saisir')
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