Henri Michaux, le corps écrit
La place centrale que Henri Michaux accorde au corps dans son œuvre, témoigne de son intense recherche pour interroger l’énigme que constitue le fait d’être vivant. Perdant le caractère clos et unifié que l’on lui reconnaît ordinairement, sa qualité de lieu d’épanouissement, ce corps apparaît comme souffrant, morcelé, évanescent, aux frontières incertaines. Paradoxalement cependant, il n’en devient que plus réel. Avant tout, il est déterminé et traversé par le langage, producteur d’une disharmonie fondamentale et nécessitant le recours à l’écriture, à la peinture et à l’expérimentation avec les drogues pour en saisir toute la complexité. Enfin, la création permet de constituer un nouveau corps dans un lien vivifiant avec le langage.
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The centrality that Henri Michaux imputes to the body in his work testifies to his intense quest to explore the enigma of that fact of being alive. Forgoing the closed and unified qualities that are ordinarily ascribed to it, its status as a site of fulfillment, this body appears as suffering, fragmented, evanescent, and with uncertain boundaries. Paradoxically however, it thereby becomes more real. Above all, it is determined and traversed by language, which produces a fundamental disharmony and necessitates the recourse to writing, painting and experimentation with drugs to grasp its full complexity. Finally, creation allows for the constitution of a new body in a vivifying bond with language.
Henri Michaux, le corps écrit, Paris, Lettres modernes-Minard, coll. « Bibliothèque des Lettres modernes, 60 ; Critique ; 16 », 2022. 329 pages. ISBN 978-2-406-14126-6.
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The centrality that Henri Michaux imputes to the body in his work testifies to his intense quest to explore the enigma of that fact of being alive. Forgoing the closed and unified qualities that are ordinarily ascribed to it, its status as a site of fulfillment, this body appears as suffering, fragmented, evanescent, and with uncertain boundaries. Paradoxically however, it thereby becomes more real. Above all, it is determined and traversed by language, which produces a fundamental disharmony and necessitates the recourse to writing, painting and experimentation with drugs to grasp its full complexity. Finally, creation allows for the constitution of a new body in a vivifying bond with language.
Henri Michaux, le corps écrit, Paris, Lettres modernes-Minard, coll. « Bibliothèque des Lettres modernes, 60 ; Critique ; 16 », 2022. 329 pages. ISBN 978-2-406-14126-6.
Commander en ligne ici.