Bibliograph

A certain Plume, Henri Michaux ; translated from the French by Richard Sieburth ; preface by Lawrence Durrell

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A certain Plume, Henri Michaux ; translated from the French by Richard Sieburth ; preface by Lawrence Durrell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A certain Plume

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1001730128

Responsibility statement

Henri Michaux ; translated from the French by Richard Sieburth ; preface by Lawrence Durrell

Series statement

NYRB/poets

Summary

"The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing shape, taking new forms, at perpetual risk from reality. He is a personification of the imagination as subject to innumerable pratfalls and disgraces, and yet indestructible for all that. In this new bilingual edition, with translations by Richard Sieburth, the entire Plume cycle appears for the first time in English in the form in which Michaux originally published it."--Cover page 4

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