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By Margaret Rigaud-Drayton

Henri Michaux is well known as a huge twentieth-century French poet and painter. even though his fascination with common languages has attracted the eye of a number of of his critics, it has up in the past been handled as a marginal crisis. Henri Michaux: Poetry, portray, and the Universal Sign argues that his rules on what may well represent a common language are important to an figuring out of his works. It means that either his ambivalent articulation of his courting to the languages and literary traditions of his local Belgium and adoptive France, and his efforts concurrently to exacerbate and subvert the diversities among phrases and pictures, are rooted in Enlightenment theories of the connection of the self to nature and its language

Rigaud-Drayton's research makes a considerable and unique contribution to the learn of this advanced artist, exploring the complex relationships among note and picture in his poetry and work, and his quest for a unmarried, unifying language or signal

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14 Just as in the world described by these early travellers, mythic creatures coexisted with existing ones, and sometimes informed their portraits of the latter, so Michaux juxtaposes and intermixes the natural and the imaginary in his writings. This is particularly striking in Mes proprie´te´s: . . La` je vis aussi l’Auroch, la Parpue, la Darelette, l’E´pigrue, la Cartive avec la teˆte en forme de poire, la Meige, l’E´meu avec du pus dans les oreilles, la Courtipliane avec sa de´marche d’Eunuque; des Vampires, des hype´druches a` la queue noire, .

Similarly, although Michaux’s comparison of the piercing cries of monkeys with the squawking of parrots sounds fairly realistic, the neological ‘barbrissant’ and ‘ramoisant’ reinforce one’s impression that these creatures do not dwell in nature through their transgression of that other nature that, for francophones, lies in the French linguistic order. Whereas apparently natural creatures have a strangely unnatural aura, more straightforwardly imaginary beasts can seem perfectly ordinary. Michaux’s invented ‘hype´druches a` la queue noire’ have both a plausible name evoking the word perruches with a Greek prefix, and credible attributes.

Displacing his progenitors with literary father figures in order to reinvent himself, he does not unambiguously lay claim to the French literary tradition. Only a minority of the literary father figures that he invokes in the ‘Renseignements’ are French. These are Ernest Hello and Lautre´amont: Paulhan was his guide in the maze of the Parisian literary world, rather than one of those who inspired him to write. By contrast with Paulhan, who was very much a Frenchman and a pillar of Parisian letters, both Hello and Lautre´amont were marginal figures with ambiguous literary and personal identities.

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