Mydriasis: Followed by 'to the Icebergs'

J.M.G. Le Cl zio is an author who has been called the author of new departures, poetic adventure, and sensual ecstasy. His novel Mydriasis takes us on a phantasmagoric journey into parallel worlds and whirling visions, dwelling on darkness, light, and human vision. He includes Michaux's poem of the poem Iniji, allowing the poet's voice to emerge by itself. This is an act of complete insight and understanding, a personal appropriation and elevation of the work, and will further strengthen the reputation of one of the world's greatest and most visionary living writers.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 152 pages
\n Publication date: 15 May 2019
\n Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
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While presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Cl zio in 2008, the Nobel Committee hailed him as the author of new departures, poetic adventure, and sensual ecstasy, an explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization. In Mydriasis, the author fully demonstrates this as he takes us on a phantasmagoric journey into parallel worlds and whirling visions. Dwelling on darkness, light, and human vision, Le Cl zio's richly poetic prose composes a mesmerizing song and a dizzying exploration of the universe—a universe not unlike the abysses explored by the highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet Henri Michaux. Michaux, in fact, is at the heart of To the Icebergs. Fascinated by his writing, Le Cl zio includes Michaux's poem "Iniji" within the book, thereby allowing the poet's voice to emerge by itself. What follows is much more than a simple analysis of the poem; rather, it is an act of complete insight and understanding, a personal appropriation and elevation of the work. Written originally in the 1970s and now translated into English for the first time, these two brief, incisive, and haunting texts will further strengthen the reputation of one of the world's greatest and most visionary living writers.

\n Weight: 244g\n
Dimension: 199 x 128 x 14 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780857426543\n \n