Henri Michaux is widely recognized as a major twentieth-century French poet and painter. Although his fascination with universal languages has attracted critical attention, it has up until now been treated as a marginal concern. This study argues that Michaux's ideas on universal languages are central to an understanding of his works.
Henri Michaux is widely recognized as a major twentieth-century French poet and painter. Although his fascination with universal languages has attracted critical attention, it has up until now been treated as a marginal concern. This study argues that Michaux's ideas on universal languages are central to an understanding of his works.
Margaret Rigaud-Drayton is College Lecturer in French at Christ's College Cambridge. She has previously been Lecturer in French at the University of Virginia; Senior Scholar at St Hugh's College, Oxford; and Professeur Eleve Stagiaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses.
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Introduction 1: Michaux between France and Belgium 2: Self and Other 3: Dreaming of a Universal Language 4: Writing in Another (French) Language